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clincher
noun as in settling event
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Example Sentences
This was a clincher—assorted worthies sent their own medals back in protest but everyone else was delighted.
The real clincher, though, is that their only instruments are a drum set and dozens of beer bottles.
The doubling of images of, say, the finger when the eyeball is pressed, is frequently proffered as a clincher.
In the South an expression of this kind is very often added on as a sort of clincher to give emphasis.
This last was a clincher and the obscurantic antisalts received the deathblow they richly deserved.
And he backed his assertion with an oath, swallowing off the contents of his glass by way of a clincher.
It is a clincher which no sophistry can set aside, no reasoning can grapple with, and no logic overthrow.
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to clincher, such as: closer, culmination, deathblow, finisher, capper, and coup de grâce.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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