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as in calamity
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Recent Examples of deathblow
The all-encompassing figure for loss reflects the reality faced by those like Christine D., for whom the destruction of her home was a financial death blow to a way of life.
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Resorting to unilateral military strikes against the cartels would constitute a death blow to cooperative law enforcement efforts between the United States and Mexico.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
And that, unfortunately, could lead to higher prices, layoffs, and ultimately be a death blow for some small distilleries.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
But where to start in dealing twin death blows to Christianity?
—Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Resorting to unilateral military strikes against the cartels would constitute a death blow to cooperative law enforcement efforts between the United States and Mexico.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
And that, unfortunately, could lead to higher prices, layoffs, and ultimately be a death blow for some small distilleries.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
But where to start in dealing twin death blows to Christianity?
—Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathblow
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Altogether, the strength of ticket sales for such a chaotic jumble of movies indicated a return from the brink after a cascading series of showbiz calamities stretching from the N95 era to the Hollywood strikes to the Los Angeles wildfires.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
22 May 2025
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The America that emerges from this growing constitutional and political calamity Trump has created will not be the same as the America that entered it.—
Patrick Eddington,
Oc Register,
18 May 2025
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The continental experiences continued in San Sebastian come the start of the knockout phase, where fans wandered the tight passages of the old town searching for the best pintxos and savouring Basque cheesecake.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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The season is broken up into stages of competition, including blind auditions, battles, knockouts and playoffs.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
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After the fires, the governor formed the Climate Advisory Team (CAT) to develop climate disaster policy recommendations.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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The first episode features the recreation by actors of actual communication or lack of communication between the pilot and his junior officer that led to these disasters.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
29 May 2025
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The coup de grace was delivered a minute into injury time as Mount seized on a poor clearance from Athletic goalkeeper Julen Agirrezabala.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
9 May 2025
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The coup de grace will come some five billion years from now, when our expanding red giant sun engulfs and incinerates poor little Earth.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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And a drowning tragedy struck a TikTok influencer's family.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Few legacies in American motorsports carry the same weight, and even fewer families are as synonymous with both triumph and tragedy.—
Greg Engle,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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After losing the opener 2-1 in the 12th inning, Boston rebounded with a 10-1 victory on Saturday and 3-1 clincher on Sunday.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Hartford Courant,
11 May 2025
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The clincher was recruiting German stage designer Florian Wieder, who has been behind events including Eurovision, WrestleMania and Adele’s residency in Munich last summer.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
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The film begins, as usual, with a vision of cataclysm: a Space Needle–esque building that both collapses and explodes.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Produced and directed by Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn, the film is about the financial cataclysm that hit New York City in 1975, when the powers that be figured out that the city was $6 billion in debt.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Deathblow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathblow. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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