death knell

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Mr. Trump spoke on Monday with Mr. Sharaa, and on Tuesday Mr. Barrack sounded a death knell for the SDF.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

My hunch is that many who are making this false claim about the stocks-bonds correlation are overly fixated on the 60/40 portfolio’s 2022 loss, believing that a loss that large sounded the portfolio’s death knell.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

It marks the death knell of the post–World War II settlement that, however imperfect, wrestled the anarchy of war into a framework designed to condition armed aggression on legal justification.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026

Industrial automation in the 1970s, for example, was considered the death knell for American manufacturing that would lead to waves of unemployment and the loss of U.S. economic leadership.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

Consequently, we do not have to wait until the publication of Geoffroy’s table in 1718 to hear the death knell of alchemy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton