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as in confutation
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as in calamity
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Although a setback, those involved were careful to say the court’s decision was not a death blow to the affordable housing project.
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Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
Cinema stops the written in its tracks and deals a death blow to its descendent: the imaginary.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
That, from now on, the spectacular imbalance of cinema’s means deals a death blow to the product that comes out of it.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
According to Wiebe, the death blow to the 16 dead and 22 non-releasable fish was the amount of time the DNR team spent transporting them in buckets, measuring, and fin-clipping them before putting them back in the water.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Feb. 2024
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Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
Cinema stops the written in its tracks and deals a death blow to its descendent: the imaginary.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
That, from now on, the spectacular imbalance of cinema’s means deals a death blow to the product that comes out of it.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
According to Wiebe, the death blow to the 16 dead and 22 non-releasable fish was the amount of time the DNR team spent transporting them in buckets, measuring, and fin-clipping them before putting them back in the water.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Feb. 2024
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“Deathblow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathblow. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
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