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Recent Examples of deathblow
In September, those plans were dealt a death blow when the city council approved amending the municipal zoning code to prohibit timesharing in single-family homes.
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2025
In the view of the movie theater industry trade association Cinema United, the deal — which is still pending regulatory approval and would not go into effect until Q3 next year — represents a death blow to multiplexes.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
This is not going to be a death blow to the president.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Decay, the weather, ownership changes, cultural shifts, funding nightmares or a deadly virus couldn't strike the death blow.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 18 May 2025
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2025
In the view of the movie theater industry trade association Cinema United, the deal — which is still pending regulatory approval and would not go into effect until Q3 next year — represents a death blow to multiplexes.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
This is not going to be a death blow to the president.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Decay, the weather, ownership changes, cultural shifts, funding nightmares or a deadly virus couldn't strike the death blow.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 18 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for deathblow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathblow
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Nominalism and positivism have deluged the world with vast quantities of little-read scholarship whose underlying rationale is often the confutation of the very possibility of the larger-scale intelligibility of the world.—
M. D. Aeschliman,
National Review,
20 Feb. 2022
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For certain great artists, Meis believes, the creative act is a safe harbor where life’s pressures, exigencies, and calamities aren’t so much denied or resolved as reimagined as pictorial dramas.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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The calamity in the Atlanta race quickly drew comparisons to other errors, where leaders have mistakenly followed lead cars exiting the race course shortly before the finish.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2026
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That team advanced to the knockout stage but was eliminated by the Netherlands, who lost to eventual champion Argentina in the round of 16.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
12 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, Ulberg has early knockout upside.—
Brett Appley,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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It’s been roughly 11 months since the Knicks and Celtics met in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs last season, a series ending in disaster for the Celtics, who were favored to beat the Knicks before blowing consecutive 20-point leads to open the semifinals.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The disaster declaration will cover Kankakee, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Livingston, and Will counties.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The company wants to be allowed to use a commercial crusher to process the rock on site, but says it wouldn’t be done frequently.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2026
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The rock crusher itself appeared to be a mobile unit, not a permanent one.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Jan. 2026
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There’s something about the clincher in a 2-0 win, when the opposition has been pressing for an equaliser with tension mounting as your slender lead starts to look precarious.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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But the clincher came from Miller.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
4 Mar. 2026
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In January 2025, 41-year-old Plaza was struck by tragedy when her husband was found dead by suicide inside his Los Angeles home.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Deadly boat tragedies are common in the central African country, where late-night travels and overcrowded vessels are often blamed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Likely caused by volcanic eruptions in present-day Siberia, the End-Permian cataclysm eventually wiped out around 57 percent of all biological life, including 70 percent of terrestrial vertebrates.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
9 Apr. 2026
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Then two shots straight at the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then a local skirmish or two, and then cataclysm.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
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