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fatality

noun as in death, loss; ability to cause such

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New York and New Jersey in particular saw hundreds of deaths a day in April, quickly contributing to the country’s total number of fatalities.

New York and New Jersey in particular recorded hundreds of deaths a day in April, quickly contributing to the country’s total number of fatalities.

If we compare the necessary spread to achieve herd immunity with the fatality rate, we get a wide range of possible death tolls from the virus.

The country’s chief medical officers said Sunday that the Covid-19 fatality rate among those ages 5 to 14 is lower than most seasonal flu infections.

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Just this past week, California, Florida and Texas, along with a handful of other states, saw record spikes in fatalities.

Just as Obama was heading back to his house that night, a 14-year-old named Kevin Diaz became the latest Chicago gun fatality.

The Good Wife introduced its potentially fatal fatality into a world already in flux.

They're neither rising nor falling, and the highest fatality shooting took place while the assault-weapons ban was in place.

The gun-fatality rate for blacks far exceeds that for whites.

A 26-year-old man was the first fatality of the riots, found shot in his car.

Many, however, are not aware of the fatality attending its use by the brute creation.

By a strange fatality, they were generally purblind, and always shyed most fearfully when an Opposition coach approached them.

She had fallen in love; fallen with the fatality of the Lemprieres, and with the fine precipitate sweep of her own genius.

You would not believe me: you went this morning to St. Catherine's, and by a fatality the prince was there and saw you.'

Misfortune, Fatality, had willed that a drop of water thicker than the surrounding medium should pass through one of the mollusks.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fatality, such as: accident, casualty, disaster, mortality, deadliness, and destructiveness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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