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knell

[nel] / nɛl /


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People on the internet seem to be taking Lindy West’s memoir as millennial feminism’s final death knell.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Future Americans will probably spend even more time on digital devices than they do now, but it will not be the death knell of live entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Tan’s comments are far from a death knell for Corning’s optical networking hopes.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 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

The Joseph Bell tolled its last, huge knell.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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