be killed
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His attorneys had argued that the escape was instigated by a former Luster attorney who frightened him into running for his life, repeatedly telling him he’d be killed in prison.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Pedestrians are most likely to be killed by cars when they cross roads “midblock”—outside of crosswalks—at night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Not her, of course, but Claire Bennet — the Odessa, Texas high school cheerleader who couldn’t be killed.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Plus, Lavina and McCollum and the community members they organized don’t just want hyperscale centers out of all PGC land; they also want the Landover proposal to be killed for good.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The story of a prince who could not be killed, a priest who warned of a goddess’s wrath, a French prelate who believed he’d bought the same stone centuries later.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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