deadliest

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His story emerged in hearings of the federal royal commission, the highest level of public inquiry, which was formed after the December 14 attack, Australia's deadliest in decades.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

The temblors — with epicenters about 100 miles west of Caracas — were the deadliest to hit Venezuela in almost a century.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

Geological Survey warned the earthquakes had the potential to rank among the deadliest and costliest in the country’s history, projecting a death toll in the tens of thousands and billions of dollars in economic losses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

"What we've shown is that if space-time has this non-trivial topology, then it resolves one of the deadliest problems of the cosmological constant," said study co-author Stephon Alexander, a professor of physics at Brown.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026

The scientists inside the highly secure facility had to wear futuristic-looking BSL-4-positive pressure “spacesuits,” because they worked exclusively with the deadliest viruses on the planet.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti