casualty
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Investors in Aschenbrenner’s funds were not the only casualty of July’s volatility.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
She didn’t know it yet, but all that was left of her camper was its frame; it’s burned, twisted metal was another casualty of the L.A. wildfires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
They circulated inflated casualty figures in an open letter to Pope John Paul II and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Whatever the specific causes of death, this was a mass casualty event, on par with the earthquakes that hit Venezuela a few weeks ago.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
People were going to the opera, to balls, to glittering dinners in the great hotels, in spite of casualty lists and the fact that the war showed no signs of ending.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Chinese state media has said there are significant casualties, while Nepalese officials anticipate "huge scale loss".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Xi said that "the most urgent task is doing everything possible to search for and rescue the missing people... quickly treat injured people and minimise casualties to the greatest extent possible", according to CCTV.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
It’s truly a tragedy when families become casualties of things that, in the long run, may not matter nearly as much as the people involved.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Though at first Grant suffered more casualties than Robert E. Lee, “Grant didn’t stop. He kept moving forward.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
But it was won at the cost of a million Russian casualties, a staggering loss from which the czar’s armies would never recover.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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