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be the death of

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  • Air space can be the death of a cooler, because the ice (and ice packs) will be used to cool the air.
    — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • One of the biggest trends business owners will see over the next couple of years will be the death of passwords.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • This cheap season won’t be the death of the national past time.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2020
  • These squabbles can sometimes be the death of the weaker sibling.
    — Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2015
  • Gawain is an instant celebrity in the kingdom, and a year later, Gawain heads off on a quest that could be the death of him.
    — Brian Truitt, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2021
  • No one knows yet whether the commission’s decision will be the death of the city’s Broadway project.
    — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2022
  • This could be the death of a relationship, job, friendship.
    — Cheyenne M. Davis, refinery29.com, 17 May 2022
  • Housing markets across the United States are on fire; skyrocketing values may be the death of the 20% down payment.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • The fundamental theme of my essay was that identity politics could be the death of art.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Many predicted that the onset of the global pandemic would prove to be the death of a few minor competitions in the soccer world, but so far the soccer world seems to be plowing ahead.
    — Jon Marthaler, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Instead, in the U.S. at least, much of our memory consists of observing it helplessly from the sidelines while hoping that a delusional hawk with access to the button wouldn’t be the death of us all.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Far from home, Hatzin is often dwarfed by, and stranded in, these vistas, emphasizing his aloneness in an environment that might be where his father died, and might yet be the death of him.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2021

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