quietus
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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
Wisconsin had fired the first shot against Texas when the Wisconsin Real Estate Board put a quietus on some Texans who were hawking Rio Grande valley land through the Wisconsin back country.
From Time Magazine Archive
The experiment of seizing the knees as quickly as possible, when the knockings first commenced, was tried several times, but always with the effect of putting an immediate quietus upon the demonstrations.”
From The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters by Reuben Briggs Davenport
Vocabulary lists containing quietus
Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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