knell
Example Sentences
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While such a selloff might have been a death knell in years past, it has done little to ease Wall Street’s appetite for crypto.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
People on the internet seem to be taking Lindy West’s memoir as millennial feminism’s final death knell.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
My hunch is that many who are making this false claim about the stocks-bonds correlation are overly fixated on the 60/40 portfolio’s 2022 loss, believing that a loss that large sounded the portfolio’s death knell.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026
“In California, that’s not a death knell, that’s a life force.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
The Joseph Bell tolled its last, huge knell.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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