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quietus

[kwahy-ee-tuhs] / kwaɪˈi təs /




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Kg5, and now, with both Black rooks hanging, a simple king move delivers the quietus.

From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Instead, it was a much quicker quietus after 19.

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2019

What’s most disheartening is how unspectacular a quietus it turns out to be.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2016

I have taken the time and trouble in the midst of the busy life of a medical practitioner to obtain some official figures which I hope will give the time-worn libel its quietus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once let me be married, and all these worries, troublesome and distracting at present, would receive their proper quietus.

From Boston Neighbours In Town and Out by Poor, Agnes Blake




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