fatally

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Two victims - a mother who saved her baby in her dying moments and a security guard who was fatally stabbed on his first day shift - will receive posthumous awards.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Whittaker organized Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign efforts in the Pacific Northwest and spoke to him by phone only minutes before the candidate was fatally shot in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

He also shows a surprising—and fatally unwise—humility when declining calls to become the Roman emperor, citing his age: “A better head her glorious body fits than his that shakes for age and feebleness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Similar efforts have appeared in Koreatown, where a group of activists painted a crosswalk at an intersection where a 9-year-old boy was fatally struck by a vehicle.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoevski.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin