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Recent Examples of deathblow
And never before has a national candidate taken what would have otherwise been a death blow and embraced it as a political asset.
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Susan Page, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
Taken together, the regulations could deliver a death blow in the United States to coal, the fuel that powered the country for much of the last century but has caused global environmental damage.
—Coral Davenport, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
Although a setback, those involved were careful to say the court’s decision was not a death blow to the affordable housing project.
—Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
Cinema stops the written in its tracks and deals a death blow to its descendent: the imaginary.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
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Susan Page, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
Taken together, the regulations could deliver a death blow in the United States to coal, the fuel that powered the country for much of the last century but has caused global environmental damage.
—Coral Davenport, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
Although a setback, those involved were careful to say the court’s decision was not a death blow to the affordable housing project.
—Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
Cinema stops the written in its tracks and deals a death blow to its descendent: the imaginary.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathblow
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Despite certain calamities — like the Great Recession or the tech bubble of the early 2000s — the S&P 500 has turned into a long-term, compounding machine.Bret Kenwell, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Patrick Crusius worried that Texas — hot and dry and facing climate calamity — was being overrun by immigrants.Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
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In this brand of rugby, teams of seven players compete in short, 14-minute knockout matches leading to semifinals, consolation and championship rounds.Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Twelve of his 17 wins have come by way of knockout.Patrick Snell, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
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The rule could prevent a disaster like the one that happened with Synapse, where thousands of consumers lost access to their funds.Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Regional authorities have been heavily criticized for having issued alerts to mobile phones some two hours after the disaster had started.Hernán Muñoz and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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The campaign’s coup de grace was a 270-inflatable dragon coiled around the Empire State Building.Todd Longwell, Variety, 25 Sep. 2024
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Nearly 40 years later, not only are there enough people to afford such a vehicle, but GM’s new 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 stands as something of a coup de grace for Juechter, who retired Wednesday after roughly 47 years with the Detroit automaker.Michael Wayland, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2024
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That tragedy impacts the family deeply, especially her brother Joe, who last saw her.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Because, yes — somehow Peanut’s untimely death has spiraled from a social-media tragedy to a conservative political movement.Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Chicago’s curse-dispelling 8-7 clincher averaged 40.05 million viewers, eclipsing Fox’s previous record, which was set by the seventh game of the indelible Diamondbacks-Yankees series in 2001.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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In the Dodgers’ first postseason series clincher in front of a home crowd since 2013, that internal belief was evident from the start.Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
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According to an analysis of FEMA data, some twenty million Americans are actively preparing for cataclysm—roughly twice as many as in 2017.Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Because the amount of detonating material is roughly the same for every type Ia supernova, these cosmic cataclysms all shine with a similar brightness and can be seen far beyond their host galaxy.Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Deathblow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathblow. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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