death toll
Example Sentences
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Iran first claimed that more than 175 teachers and students were killed, before later revising the death toll.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Other agencies place the death toll in the tens of thousands.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
The official death toll from the incident is 31 people - two were killed by the explosion itself, while 28 died from Acute Radiation Sickness, and one from cardiac arrest, in the weeks afterwards.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Kino’s hypocrisy stems from the same swamp as the original’s fictitious Dr. Gröss, whose lurid footage climaxed with a tsk-tsking screed against poverty, pollution and fascism as major contributors to the global death toll.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Johnson couldn’t keep the mounting death toll a secret.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
