knell
a sound or sign that signals death, failure, or an ending
Knell in a sentence
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The factory's closure sounded the knell for the small mining town.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
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