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He served in senior European-affairs posts under both the Clinton and Obama administrations and more recently accused Trump of inflicting a “deathblow” on the U.S. alliance with NATO.

An overhead shot shows us the lad preparing to strike the deathblow from a point of view that feels a million miles away, less a bird’s-eye view than a god’s.

The Wildlife Trusts said the decision was a "deathblow" for wildlife.

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At the last moment, Rathbone raised his arm to protect himself from what was intended to be a deathblow.

Wagstaff, the curator, was maybe registering something important when he worried that Warhol’s painted soup cans might deliver a deathblow to established notions of painting.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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