death throes
noun
: the violent movements and noises that are sometimes made by a person who is about to die
The opera ends with the hero in his death throes.
—often used figurativelythe death throes of a failing industry
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People who are actually in their death throes rarely ask doctors for death.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 4 Dec. 2024
Across the universe Astronomers have captured an unprecedented image of a star beyond our galaxy, and the striking observations reveal what may be its final death throes.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
Astronomers have photographed a distant star in what appears to be its death throes, the first time such a phenomenon has been pictured happening outside the Milky Way galaxy.
—Tim Collins, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Nov. 2024
Among the secondary roles, John Turturro does gentle, contemplative work as a former boyfriend Ingrid inherited from Martha, who now gives talks on climate change and other global crises of a world in its death throes.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024
These nebulae are the expanding outer gas envelopes of small to medium stars in their final death throes.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 July 2024
Instead, it may have been ejected during the death throes of its star: Pulses of gas from a dying star could push planets and planetesimals outward, destabilizing their orbits enough to send some of them flying into interstellar space.
—Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2024
With the universal application of international law likely in its death throes and nothing yet to take its place save brutalist national interests and sheer greed, widespread anger can be, and will be, exploited by the many ready to foster even broader instability on an even greater global scale.
—Agnès Callamard, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2024
The post-war détente between capital and labour was now in its death throes.
—Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
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Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 4 Dec. 2024
Across the universe Astronomers have captured an unprecedented image of a star beyond our galaxy, and the striking observations reveal what may be its final death throes.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
Astronomers have photographed a distant star in what appears to be its death throes, the first time such a phenomenon has been pictured happening outside the Milky Way galaxy.
—Tim Collins, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Nov. 2024
Among the secondary roles, John Turturro does gentle, contemplative work as a former boyfriend Ingrid inherited from Martha, who now gives talks on climate change and other global crises of a world in its death throes.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024
These nebulae are the expanding outer gas envelopes of small to medium stars in their final death throes.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 July 2024
Instead, it may have been ejected during the death throes of its star: Pulses of gas from a dying star could push planets and planetesimals outward, destabilizing their orbits enough to send some of them flying into interstellar space.
—Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2024
With the universal application of international law likely in its death throes and nothing yet to take its place save brutalist national interests and sheer greed, widespread anger can be, and will be, exploited by the many ready to foster even broader instability on an even greater global scale.
—Agnès Callamard, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2024
The post-war détente between capital and labour was now in its death throes.
—Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
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“Death throes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20throes. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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