deadly
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Dozens of young people congregated at Nepal's burnt-out parliament building on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The findings could help researchers develop more powerful antivenoms for deadly snakebites, which remain a major health threat in some regions of the world.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
A nine-month review of all maternity services was scheduled to begin this autumn after NHS staff and experts called for improvements to poor and sometimes deadly care as part of a BBC Disclosure investigation.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Though by her own admission she was often furious about many things, her sharpest weapon was always a deadly talent for stating the obvious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Don’t you know?” said he, with a deadly look.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Russia has improved Iran’s original design to make Shahed drones deadlier and harder to intercept.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
"Weapons evolve faster than political decisions meant to stop them," Zelensky said, saying that the Iranian-designed Shahed drones that Russia uses have become much deadlier as the war drags on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
So far, most of the cases of the deadlier strain, known as clade Ib, have been on the African content, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2024
Thailand has announced its first confirmed case of a new, potentially deadlier strain of Mpox - the first in Asia, and second outside of Africa.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024
As lions became deadlier, so gazelles evolved to run faster, hyenas to cooperate better, and rhinoceroses to be more bad-tempered.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Efforts to halt the spread of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo are faltering as health workers go unpaid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Fourteen people are to go on trial in France on Tuesday over the loss of 31 people including a seven-year-old child in 2021, in the deadliest small-boat crossing accident recorded in the Channel.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration last month approved a therapy for pancreatic tumors, a breakthrough in fighting one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
That disaster was one of the deadliest and most destructive in history with an estimated 35,000 people killed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
It was because she was listening so closely that she knew the exact moment when Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, the bastard of the Barrel and the deadliest boy in Ketterdam, fainted.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
