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Time magazine tagged her as one of the death knells of feminism, which seems harsh.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2017

They worked for him at Modern Photography, Holiday, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country and other publications, most of them gone long before the Internet began sounding its knells for the printed page.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2015

Despite the death knells, Luke Donald spent part of the year at No. 1, and after dropping to No. 3, supplanted Woods at No. 2 by December.

From Golf Digest • Dec. 5, 2012

In 2006, Katyal led a successful Supreme Court case challenging the legality of the Bush Administration's military tribunals in Guant�namo, a ruling that sounded one of the first death knells for Camp X-Ray.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fire is loose! and frantic knells     Throb fast and faster, As tower to tower confusedly tells     News of disaster.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell