killer
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Following the runaway success of “Reacher” with this spinoff centering that hero’s sister-in-arms Frances Neagley is killer timing.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Summer is over, but that doesn’t mean there can’t still be stories about killer creatures under the sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Forecasters last weekend had issued flash-flood warnings for the area and said certain spots “can become raging killer currents in a matter of minutes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The key to a killer résumé is your perfect scrambled eggs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Maine, that most moderate of states, was having a killer heat wave.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
The Times leads on the fact that killers, including two men convicted over the death of PC Andrew Harper, will stay behind bars.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
More than 30 families have called on the government to stop killers convicted of any form of manslaughter being released early to ease prison overcrowding in England and Wales.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
He blended into the crowd, grew his beard, attended the mosques where the killers preached, listened, questioned, checked rumors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But prolonged exposure produced cells that were poor killers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Farmers using arsenic dusts over long periods have been afflicted with chronic arsenic poisoning; livestock have been poisoned by crop sprays or weed killers containing arsenic.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
