final blow
Example Sentences
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For Dalkanat, expansion would be the final blow.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Surging interest rates and labor costs provided the final blow, pushing many properties into insolvency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
In a review of the gig, the Guardian said the Pulitzer prize-winning rapper "delivered the final blow to his diss track nemesis".
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2025
The final blow came when she got laid off with only two weeks’ pay, then suffered through a three-month backlog of unemployment claims as her bank account dwindled.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
It would be Fermi who delivered the final blow to his dream, at the General Advisory Committee’s meeting in October 1949—the same meeting that had produced the negative report on the Super.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
