deadly
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India is stepping up monitoring of its Himalayan regions bordering China and Nepal, days after the deadly flood apparently triggered by a glacial collapse.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Some survivors of the deadly floods on the Nepal-China border ran for their lives, others narrowly missed disaster, but all were eyewitnesses to a major calamity and its aftermath.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
After reviewing the evidence, an internal review board was divided on whether Garcia-Alamilla was justified in using deadly force.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
It's one of several clips BBC Verify has located along the Trishuli River after a deadly cascade of water, mud and other debris flooded the area on Wednesday, as Merlyn Thomas reports.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Fa’s knife was beautiful and deadly, with a blade of banded blue slate shaped like a willow leaf, and a haft of red deer antler that was bound with elk sinew for a better grip.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Bacterial meningitis, as seen in this outbreak, is rarer and deadlier than the viral type.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
That means more people will skip coverage, see doctors less and forgo prescriptions as minor health problems that are not caught early balloon into bigger, deadlier and costlier conditions.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
While about 500,000 people a year die from excessive heat, he says, “surprisingly, excessive cold is far deadlier, killing nearly ten times more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Only dioxins, which come primarily from burning waste materials, are deadlier than airborne hexavalent chromium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
For one reason or another, the virus became a lot deadlier.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
With nearly 13,000 deaths each year, breast cancer is the deadliest cancer among women in France.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The FDA approves a new therapy against one of the deadliest cancers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
A 2023 American Civil Liberties Union report found that of the 10 deadliest school shootings in two decades, eight happened on campuses that already had surveillance cameras.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The death toll from a ferry disaster on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba has risen to 93, which makes it the country's deadliest transport disaster, according to the state-run Herald newspaper.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
