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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

As a crowning blow, the destruction severed this east-west axis of the industrial belt between Hiroshima and Tokyo.

From Time Magazine Archive

At one fatal crowning blow all my vague resolutions of return and recovery had vanished.

From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)




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