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death rattle

NOUN
sound made while dying
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“It’s hard not to see this as, like, the final death rattle of an era.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

"At the end there can be a death rattle - a sound of hard breathing that can be frightening for people in the room," she says.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

"This is the death rattle of a movement that just cannot adapt to a changing world and to a community that is saying, 'We're not hiding in the shadows anymore.'"

From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2023

What’s come since has been the death rattle, and remixes of that death rattle.”

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

But there was a mouth...a gaping, shapeless hole, sucking the air with the sound of a death rattle.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling


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