kill
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"We never expected that a cell could just explode like a bomb and kill the cells surrounding it," said senior author Bo Wang, associate professor of bioengineering in the schools of Engineering and Medicine.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Some information has been released to the public but it's not adding up. Those elephants have to eat a huge amount to kill them."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
All policy wonks worth their salt know there are a few ways to kill a government program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Already, mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 1 million people and infect about 700 million worldwide each year.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Then Katherine complained, “That’s a stupid comparison. A nuclear explosion in Kansas City would kill all the stolen babies, too.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
"But then the other eight, nine months, where a lot of the second homes, for example, don't have people in them, it just kills the community for the rest of the year."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
It kills vulnerable cells while allowing cells with useful resistance mutations to survive.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Anorexia kills a higher percentage of patients than any other eating disorder, data shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Washing or peeling can lessen the risk of infection, but cooking food to at least 158 degrees reliably kills Cyclospora.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Aloud, Rick said, “I’m going down by elevator with an android I’ve captured. And suddenly someone kills it, without warning.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Combined with previous research from the same fossil site, the evidence indicates that some animals may have been killed by predators.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir, at least 31 people been killed in several short bursts of extremely intense rainfall, according to a report by the public state broadcaster.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
"It's not an answer any family wants to receive - confirmation that your loved one has been killed," Griffiths added.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
He was especially moved when he was riding in Pacoima and saw a Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens mural that memorializes the tragic plane crash that killed both Holly and Valens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Last winter my father had killed only three bearded seals and there was a whole month when we didn't have much to eat.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
To be fair, retail and institutional investors have made a killing betting on state ownership.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
In mitigation, Elliott Stern told the court his client had tried to deal with the dispute without resorting to killing the fish.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The researchers then engineered the bean gum to contain protegrin, an antimicrobial peptide capable of killing harmful bacteria.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
In June, a B-52 bomber jet crashed at Edwards Air Force Base, northeast of Los Angeles, killing eight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
They were going to find Adiah, help her get rid of the splendor poisoning her body, and possibly stop the killing that had plagued Lkossa for almost a century.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
