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death knell

noun as in death warrant

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Not everyone celebrated Accenture’s purchase of Droga’s agency at the time — to some it signaled a death knell for creativity.

From Digiday

Many reports detail how the pandemic sounded the death knell for the breakfast buffet as it brought the end of shared serving utensils.

From Vox

The government wanted to reduce labor and costs, but many growers view the law as a quality death knell.

Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sounded what many considered to be the death knell for the SNC.

They wanted to sound the death knell for the campaign, file their stories, and get out of Memphis as soon as possible.

When you have somebody working for your campaign, like Grooms, who says you can't win, that is the death knell for a candidate.

I now consider it the death knell for traditional publishing.

It is not so now, for when the blacks revolted and drove their masters from the land, the death-knell of civilisation was sounded.

Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death-knell?

He was extremely perplexed, for to him it was as his death knell, and he commenced setting his house in order.

It made plaintive melody in the nocturnal stillness, bespeaking the death-knell perchance of many.

Amid the thundering of the guns from the citadel, the great bell of the Cathedral clanged the death knell to Arnold's hopes.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to death knell, such as: apocalypse, bane, coup de grâce, cut off, deathblow, and doom.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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