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crowning blow



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As a crowning blow, my “good” ear on the left had also been damaged.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2021

Then he belted a three-run homer that was the crowning blow on a miserable night for the Yankees.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2015

Stephen Drew delivered the crowning blow, a two-run homer.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2015

The crowning blow came in the fall of 1988, when Shearson lost the $25 billion buyout battle for RJR Nabisco, the largest takeover fight in history.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was the crowning blow, that there should be spectators of his predicament.

From The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse


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