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Is this the death knell of American political satire?

From Salon ● May 19, 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

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

“In California, that’s not a death knell, that’s a life force.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

Then, in the cold voice of an adder, “The bell invites me. Hear it not, Merlin, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Time magazine tagged her as one of the death knells of feminism, which seems harsh.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2017

They worked for him at Modern Photography, Holiday, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country and other publications, most of them gone long before the Internet began sounding its knells for the printed page.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2015

Despite the death knells, Luke Donald spent part of the year at No. 1, and after dropping to No. 3, supplanted Woods at No. 2 by December.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 5, 2012

He's more used to knells, And sounds them grandly.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Montrose Jonas Moses

Then, ere the echoes of those funeral knells died away, he arose, lit the two gas-jets, and sat down.

From Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast by Charles Clark Munn

At the same time the sad "too late, too late," was knelled in my ears, and I thought of the might-have-been, and rode the merry-go-round of regret's banalities.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

Although their beating hearts with ours kept time, Although their clinging hands we fondly held, We could not walk the path they had to climb, Hardly we heard the death-call when it knelled.

From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Helen Leah Reed

The typical, significant sound knelled to her heart.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward

As I stood there in the pulpit, busying me to teach the commandment of GOD, there knelled a sacring-bell; and therefore mickle people turned away hastily, and with great noise ran from towards me.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Of all the strange hours of my life it had knelled none more desperate than this!

From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore."

From Time Magazine Archive

While many of the world's thinkers are worried about the proliferation of births, it is the knelling sound of death that keeps us awake at night.

From Time Magazine Archive

The golden bees are silent on the thymy Hymettus; and the knelling horn of Aurora’s love no more shall scatter away the cold twilight on the top of Hymettus. 

From Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Not to be was that manhood!—The death-bell is knelling, The hinge of the death-vault creaks harsh on the ears— How dismal, O Death, is the place of thy dwelling!

From The Poems of Schiller — First period by Friedrich Schiller

Thou sleep'st upon the shore Beside the knelling surge, And Sea-nymphs evermore Shall sadly chant thy dirge.

From Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley