Thesaurus / clincher
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She had a fever, chills and trouble breathing, but the real clincher was her loss of smell.
AT A LONG COVID CLINIC, HERE’S HOW DOCTORS ARE TRYING TO HELP ONE WOMAN WHO IS STRUGGLINGMEGHAN ROSENNOVEMBER 17, 2022SCIENCE NEWSColorado outscored Tampa 20-15 in the Cup final, getting to Vasilevskiy for a shocking seven goals in Game 2 and later suffocating the Lightning offense in the clincher.
CAN THE AVALANCHE REPEAT? WILL THE LIGHTNING REBOUND? WHAT TO WATCH FOR IN THE 2022-23 NHL SEASONTERRENCE DOYLEOCTOBER 7, 2022FIVETHIRTYEIGHTEven sometimes-maligned Colorado goalie Darcy Kuemper was sharp in the clincher, stopping 22 of 23 Lightning shots Sunday night.
THE COLORADO AVALANCHE REACHED HOCKEY’S SUMMIT — AND TOOK DOWN A DYNASTY IN THE PROCESSNEIL PAINE (NEIL.PAINE@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JUNE 27, 2022FIVETHIRTYEIGHTYou’ll even sleep more soundly and, as a clincher, have a better sex life.
HOW THE 'AUTHORITY GAP' BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN HURTS US ALLMARY ANN SIEGHARTAPRIL 1, 2022TIMEHe, too, looked damn near unplayable defensively early in the Finals, but Bud stuck with him, and he came through with 16 points off the bench in the clincher as the delirious crowd repeatedly chanted his name.
HOW THE BUCKS STORMED BACK AND WON A TITLEJARED DUBINJULY 21, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe doubling of images of, say, the finger when the eyeball is pressed, is frequently proffered as a clincher.
ESSAYS IN EXPERIMENTAL LOGICJOHN DEWEYIn the South an expression of this kind is very often added on as a sort of clincher to give emphasis.
ENGLISH AS WE SPEAK IT IN IRELANDP. W. JOYCEThis last was a clincher and the obscurantic antisalts received the deathblow they richly deserved.
GREENER THAN YOU THINKWARD MOOREAnd he backed his assertion with an oath, swallowing off the contents of his glass by way of a clincher.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXLV. JULY, 1844. VOL. LVI.VARIOUSIt is a clincher which no sophistry can set aside, no reasoning can grapple with, and no logic overthrow.
THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORSKERSEY GRAVESWORDS RELATED TO CLINCHER
- affidavit
- argument
- attestation
- averment
- case
- certification
- chapter and verse
- clincher
- clue
- confirmation
- corroboration
- credentials
- criterion
- cue
- data
- demonstration
- deposition
- documents
- establishment
- exhibit
- facts
- goods
- grabber
- grounds
- information
- lowdown
- nitty-gritty
- paper trail
- picture
- reason
- reasons
- record
- scoop
- score
- skinny
- smoking gun
- straight stuff
- substantiation
- testament
- testimony
- trace
- validation
- verification
- warrant
- wherefore
- why
- whyfor
- witness
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