deathblows

noun

plural of deathblow
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as in confutations

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as in calamities

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  1. calamities
  2. disasters
  3. tragedies
  4. catastrophes
  5. casualties
  6. accidents
  7. cataclysms
  8. croppers
Noun
  • The protagonist becomes a wise-guy version of Benjamin’s Angel of History, watching calamities accumulate before his eyes.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of calamities
Noun
  • At the same time, as the extreme heat and wildfires this year showed us, climate disasters are taking lives and inflicting economic losses on a scale that governments can no longer afford to ignore.
    — Laurence Tubiana, Time, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Their power persisted despite proliferating school shootings, the devastating failures of the state’s electrical grid, the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and other scandals, disasters, and tragedies.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of disasters
Noun
  • The film, directed by Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, shows how Morrison overcame multiple tragedies to achieve the unthinkable – scaling the north side of Mount Everest and then skiing down it, a feat never before accomplished.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Ghosts can haunt their killers, or serve as a warning for the living to not forget the tragedies of the past.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of tragedies
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  • Since Benson and her co-authors met in Oviedo, weather catastrophes have multiplied, oceans have acidified and the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has soared.
    — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • With that in mind, here’s a look at three new books shaped by catastrophes large and small.
    — Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of catastrophes
Noun
  • India’s ministry said the operation ended without casualties or injuries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Another strike in Gaza City killed three people, including a 4-year-old boy, and seriously wounded a woman, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the casualties.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of casualties
Noun
  • The Associated Press reported that Spain’s National Police had opened an investigation into the incident, as deaths from non-natural causes — even accidents — are subject to investigations in the country.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Under Spanish law, deaths from non-natural causes, including accidents, are subject to judicial investigation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of accidents
Noun
  • The destruction of the ozone layer would allow hazardous ultraviolet radiation to rain down on the planet, adding to the series of climate cataclysms that would threaten civilization and most life on Earth.
    — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • These include supernovae and other cataclysms, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), some of which arise from colliding black holes or neutron stars and are among the most powerful explosions in the universe.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
Definition of cataclysms
Noun
  • More recently, soybean croppers were angered by the financial support lent to Argentina, which went on to ship large quantities of its own soybeans to China.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of croppers
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