kill
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Extreme heat can kill through heatstroke but mostly proves fatal when combined with existing conditions such as cardiovascular, lung or kidney diseases.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“You’re feeling this emotion for this character who hasn’t talked the entire movie and who’s trying to kill this bird — I was very surprised,” Forte says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The stronger cells also contained more of the molecular machinery needed to kill targets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
"I have a part-time job as everything is so expensive, and then commuting is going to kill a lot of my free time as well," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Because when the time would come to eat one for dinner, she wouldn’t have the heart to kill it.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
As his father reminds John during a venting session that occurs after Hal nonchalantly almost kills him, “They’re allowed to have tantrums. We’re not.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
If successful, the strategy could eventually offer a new way to combat an HIV epidemic that still kills about 600,000 people worldwide every year.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Air pollution from fires kills roughly 20,000 times as many people as the fires themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He’s got a super-soaker “Goonies”-meets-early-Peter Jackson mindset and a list of clever kills to execute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
But, it’s no worse than some environmental factor on Sagan that kills everyone.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Government fire investigators said the fire, which killed 19 people and destroyed thousands of homes, was caused by electrical arcing on Edison’s out-of-service transmission line in Eaton Canyon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“The Dog Stars” takes place in a wrecked, deserted 2035, after a viral plague has killed almost everybody on Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
His father was killed at the bitter end of the war, fighting for Marshal Tito, the leader who managed to knit together the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia and suppress simmering enmities.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
People living in a town where nine people have been killed in a crash and fire in the past week deserve to "feel safe in their own homes", a council leader has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Four thousand Americans and thirty thousand Filipinos were killed.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
In 2023, a glacial lake burst in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, killing people and destroying a hydropower dam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Cars, he pointed out, “have a direct link to the higher likelihood of killing children and people on the streets.”
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
A fire erupted in a hospital's maternity ward in Islamabad on Wednesday, killing 14 infants, Pakistani authorities said, with the prime minister calling for an investigation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Flooding and mud slides hit the Rasuaw region in the morning on Wednesday, killing at least 95 people in Nepal and three in Tibet, according to Chinese state media.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The giant log where Clare had recently planted the feather whites had been kicked down the gentle incline, killing every precious blue-blue in its wake.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
