coup de grace
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Esmee Brugts opened the scoring in the second minute, with Kika Nazareth extending the lead before Putellas got her name on the scoreboard before Caroline Graham Hansen's coup de grace on the whistle.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
Australia's uncharacteristically tail failed to wag with Rabada providing the coup de grace to Australia's innings when he pinned back Starc's leg stump to claim his fifth wicket.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
The coup de grace came Thursday in a 6-4 Oilers’ win at a raucous Rogers Place, which has become a house of horrors for the Kings.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
And then Walz delivered the coup de grace by bringing up the absence of Mike Pence:
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2024
As the program developed, however, it was more like a coup de grace for an already ailing district.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
But in a final judicial coup de grâce, no evidence of official acts may be introduced in such prosecutions—again, no matter how corrupt the official acts.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
But the coup de grâce goes to whoever moved Grosjean’s scooter atop the iconic pagoda inside Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2022
Then, in a coup de grâce, they crush competitors with falling nuts and fronds.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 27, 2020
Whatever the traumas that marked her early life, the coup de grâce, which she circles ceaselessly, is the loss of Lucy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2020
Soon the LEP would have no option but to launch their bio-bomb, and that was when Artemis Fowl would unveil his coup de grâce.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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