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

UC President James B. Milliken said the announced cuts would be a “death knell for innovative work that saves lives, grows our economy and fortifies our national security.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

On the twelfth knell, the bonfire blazes, white and hot.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern