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Recent Examples of deathblow
If the royal family thought ‘Spare’ was damaging, a memoir by Fergie could deliver a death blow.
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Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025
But the people who love it have put it back together strong enough that a century of decay, the weather, ownership changes, cultural shifts, funding nightmares and a deadly virus couldn't strike the death blow.
—Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Nov. 2025
This is not going to be a death blow to the president.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
The marine heat wave was just the final death blow.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
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Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025
But the people who love it have put it back together strong enough that a century of decay, the weather, ownership changes, cultural shifts, funding nightmares and a deadly virus couldn't strike the death blow.
—Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Nov. 2025
This is not going to be a death blow to the president.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
The marine heat wave was just the final death blow.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
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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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Starting in the 2026-27 school year, Oklahoma public schools will be limited to two days, or 12 hours, of virtual learning for calamity closures, including severe weather, per Senate Bill 758 authored by Senate Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, and Senator Kristen Thompson, R-Edmond.—
Isa Almeida,
Oklahoman,
3 Feb. 2026
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Here’s where naming a Wall Street pro who’s a master of spotting where danger’s building may prove a hedge against a future calamity.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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The 155-pound champ followed that with a knockout victory over Volkanovski.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Goossen also worked with García on his knockout victory over Javier Fortuna.—
Eduard Cauich,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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One compelling example in the education space that Parker-Holder and Rivas described was allowing students to get a sense of what working in different professions might be like, such as assisting in disaster recovery.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
30 Jan. 2026
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The action also authorizes the use of disaster emergency funds and allows the OEM to mobilize state resources, make contracts and awards using emergency procurement procedures and encumber and expend funds as determined by the director of the OEM.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 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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Denver comedy fans are well served this weekend with headlining sets from hometown hero Josh Blue, a stand-up crusher who’s been showing comics how it’s done since grabbing national attention in 2006 with his hilariously deft, self-effacing routines.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
24 Dec. 2025
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Manager Rob Thomson punctuated the Phillies' postseason clinchers over the years with a call-and-response in the clubhouse, asking Realmuto how many more wins were needed to win the World Series.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
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The Leeds United goalkeeper had an agonisingly close-up view of Gabriel Gudmundsson’s 94th-minute clincher in London, stretching for it, but failing to keep it out.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2026
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America can't look away from celebrity tragedy Crime relating to celebrities and public figures always becomes a huge news story in the United States, all the way back (at least) to the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby in 1932.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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Maxim Naumov Figure skater Maxim Naumov will make his first appearance at the Olympics after a year marked by tragedy and an emotional comeback.—
Aliza Chasan,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The most violent volcanic cataclysm ever seen in our solar system has been witnessed on Jupiter’s moon Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, with simultaneous eruptions covering an enormous 40,400 square miles (65,000 square kilometers).—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Perhaps a cataclysm—an earthquake, a volcanic eruption—had driven those people away.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Deathblow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathblow. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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