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Recent Examples of deathblow
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.
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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
But the introduction and rapid adoption of mobile phones dealt a death blow to their usage—seemingly in the blink of an eye.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
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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
But the introduction and rapid adoption of mobile phones dealt a death blow to their usage—seemingly in the blink of an eye.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathblow
Noun
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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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The present-day Red Sox are on the other side of that rebuild, and have no legs on which to stand in this entirely avoidable calamity of losing both Devers and Bregman.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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We are told that only about 40% of the housing units are now occupied and seldom does a week or so go by without some housing calamity taking place.—
Jerry Shnay,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Levi’s Stadium will also host five World Cup group stage games — involving teams like Qatar, Austria, Jordan, Switzerland, Paraguay, Australia and Algeria — and one Round of 32 knockout game in July.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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As with Sátántangó, Tarr devised exquisite tracking shots that seemed to float through János’ unhappy universe, delivering one knockout image after another.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
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More than a year after the disaster, which killed all but two people on board, much is still unclear about why the passenger jet crash landed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Jan. 2026
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The councilwoman emphasized that every neighborhood in Los Angeles is just one disaster from devastation.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
10 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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The game-clincher came one play after linebacker Ty’Anthony Smith’s second interception, which preserved a 34-27 lead.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
2 Jan. 2026
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Two members of the New England Patriots are eligible to play in what could be a top-seed clincher this weekend despite allegations made against them earlier this week.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
31 Dec. 2025
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Reactions to this tragedy from friends on social media align completely with their political persuasions.—
Gwen Faulkenberry,
Arkansas Online,
15 Jan. 2026
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Thirasak Wongsoongnern, a member of staff on the train, told local media outlet Thairath Online, that the train had been traveling at around 74mph when the tragedy occurred, according to the BBC.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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That industry, and its relationship to the city and state that cradled it for so long, is in a state of upheaval (or cataclysm, depending on who’s talking), which makes a pilgrimage to the Hollywood Heritage Museum even more powerful.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Their tribe decimated by volcanic eruptions, a cataclysm their goddess Eywa did nothing to alleviate, the ash people are aggrieved, aggressive and, unlike the tribes in Pandora's low-lying regions, willing to embrace technology.—
Bob Mondello,
NPR,
18 Dec. 2025
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