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quietus

[kwahy-ee-tuhs] / kwaɪˈi təs /




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Kg5, and now, with both Black rooks hanging, a simple king move delivers the quietus.

From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Instead, it was a much quicker quietus after 19.

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2019

What’s most disheartening is how unspectacular a quietus it turns out to be.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2016

Short of that, they could put a quietus to the outmoded system of rotating the chief's job among "nonaligned" parts of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Ellen Seymour had predicted, basket ball did not receive its quietus.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline




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