casualty
Example Sentences
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"The attacker was signalling vulnerability without necessarily crossing the threshold into mass casualty or nuclear safety crisis."
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel responded to a call of a mass casualty event around 9:30 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Large losses in the property and casualty segment were below Hannover Re’s budgeted expectation at 206.9 million euros, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
"I wish we did not land there after the first casualty, because along with us, there were a hundred more passengers, and they were interacting with the islanders," he said.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
"Perhaps had I overheard some of what I'm about to tell you when I was a student up there on the hill, I wouldn't be the casualty that I am."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Vocabulary lists containing casualty
The Things They Carried
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The American Civil War
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A Long Way Gone
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