lethal

Example Sentences

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ASF is highly contagious and lethal for pigs and wild boars, but it does not affect humans.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Bringing the Geneva Conventions and their prohibition of war crimes into the fight against lethal economic sanctions can raise the legal and political cost of enforcing them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Higher energy prices have the potential to cause stagflation —a lethal combination of higher inflation and lower growth that would likely undermine businesses’ bottom lines.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The footage, which appears in Laura Poitras’ marvelous 2022 documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” is a haunting vision of lethal corporate greed.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas