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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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And perhaps no one is more familiar with how thin the line is between triumph and calamity than Vonn.—
Will Graves,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2026
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James Gilbert / Getty Images College sports’ latest existential crisis is a calamity of its own making.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Four group-stage matches will be played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, along with two knockout round games.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2026
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Instead of criss-crossing the country for the group-stage games, teams will advance in the tournament and move progressively closer to the knockout rounds held at the Rose Bowl.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Another measure, House Bill 1645, would create state versions of FEMA programs as Mississippi officials prepare for reduced federal disaster support.—
ALEX ROZIER Mississippi Today,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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The February 2021 freeze became one of the deadliest and costliest disasters in state history.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Houston Chronicle,
13 Feb. 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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The death happened four years after a previous tragedy near Northstar.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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Worst mass shootings in Canada's history The attack on the village of Tumbler Ridge is among the worst shootings in the history of Canada, where such tragedies are relatively rare.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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The series, based on a popular video-game franchise, takes place in an alternate reality in which World War II yielded a retro-futuristic society thriving on rapid technological development—that is, until a nuclear cataclysm results in civilization’s collapse.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
5 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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“Deathblow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathblow. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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