fatal
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Strayed, who penned the bestselling memoir “Wild,” which was later adapted for the big screen and starred Reese Witherspoon, announced just weeks ago that Lindstrom had been diagnosed “with a serious, fatal illness.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
A fatal crash in 2000 and falling demand after 9/11 helped lead to the planes’ discontinuation in 2003.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Boeing has acknowledged that its anti-stall software was implicated in both fatal crashes.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird craft has been fired up on Coniston Water for the first time since the daredevil pilot's fatal crash on the lake almost 60 years ago.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
A victim was still needed before the outsiders and many of the old inhabitants of Macondo would credit the legend that Remedios Buendía did not give off a breath of love but a fatal emanation.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing fatal
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "F"
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