How to Use last mile in a Sentence

last mile

noun
  • That last mile is where the enormous value is.
    — Robert Mallernee, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Most companies have no real idea what their last mile looks like.
    — Barrett Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • This is the first and last mile of enterprise AI.
    — Andrew Antos, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Sometime in summer 2025, Sarah ran her last mile outdoors.
    — Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The loop from discovery to delivery, from lab to last mile and from innovation to impact must be closed.
    — Aman Gupta, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This area of Texas is essentially suffering from a last mile problem, where there's no good way to travel these short-ish distances.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2018
  • The idea is that physical AI’s last mile — the transition from digital simulation to real-world action — won’t be solved by language models or raw compute alone.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Currituck National Wildlife Refuge The Outer Banks stretch for 175 miles along the eastern coast of North Carolina, and there are gorgeous views along every last mile.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Reliability, flexibility, and fast, on time delivery guide development, with specifications tailored to local markets and customers, from last mile hubs and national distribution to cold storage, production facilities, and data centres.
    — CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Beginning at Greenwich Park, the route leads runners past famed local attractions, including the Victorian tea clipper Cutty Sark, Tower Bridge and Big Ben, which signals the race’s last mile.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Networks tested include cloud, wireless, last mile ISP (running on actual residential broadbank networks) and backbone agents that are in Tier 1 and Tier 2 ISPs that provide core Internet data on global trends, routing anomalies and CDN-level outages.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025

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