deathblow

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Recent Examples of deathblow The Wolves even fell in the same number of games, with a similar blowout defeat in Game 5 serving as the death blow. Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 June 2025 Now, Wild fans must hope that Barbashev’s goal, which evened this best-of-seven first-round series and turned it into a best-of-three, wasn’t the turning point toward the latest Wild playoff death blow. Michael Russo, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025 The flip side to that is that an upset loss to either would be a death blow. Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 26 Feb. 2025 From beef-ending Drake diss song to Record of the Year: Kendrick Lamar’s anthem, the death blow in a summer-long musical feud with his Canadian counterpart, won the rapper his first Record of the Year award at the 2025 Grammys. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deathblow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathblow
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The piling on of hurdles, unforeseen challenges, and calamities is almost ridiculous.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
  • For Israelis, fearing for the hostages, led by our government into a moral calamity whose effects will reverberate for generations.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The new model replaces the former traditional group stage with one league phase, in which every point counts towards progression to the knockout rounds.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, Swift sets off in search of a knockout.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The organization focuses on the big disasters that often grip the headlines, such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes – but also offers information about preparing for winter storms, tsunamis, tornados, lightning, hail and extreme heat.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Freeport-McMoRan is likely to rebound from an environmental disaster last month at its giant Grasberg mine in Indonesia that led the copper and gold producer to cut its production estimates, according to UBS.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The coup de grace came when fans pointed out that the Audio-Animatronic of Walt looks uncannily like Mike Lindell, staunch supporter of President Donald Trump and chief executive of pillow manufacturing company My Pillow.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Israel softened up the target; America delivered the coup de grace.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Denver Post Broncos beat reporters Parker Gabriel and Luca Evans break down Denver’s second straight walk-off loss, a 23-20 crusher at the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Cena evened the score at 2-2 by countering the calf crusher into an AA.
    Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After the tragedy, Gibson's attorney said the actor had since rehomed his beloved mastiffs.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • There are too many stories, too many tragedies, and too many silver linings to properly detail, especially as the national media spotlight has long moved on to the next crisis.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Betts has looked like himself for more than a month now, including four hits in the Wild Card Series clincher over Cincinnati.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Just two players who appeared in that clincher against Minnesota – Twins starter Kyle Gibson and Tigers third baseman Nick Castellanos – played in the majors as recently as this season.
    Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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