knell
Example Sentences
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Tan’s comments are far from a death knell for Corning’s optical networking hopes.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 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
It marks the death knell of the post–World War II settlement that, however imperfect, wrestled the anarchy of war into a framework designed to condition armed aggression on legal justification.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026
It announced, Ms. Newman writes, the “death knell to any remaining attachment to the inherited ideals of the Greek notion of beauty.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
These words fell like the knell of doom—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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