lethal
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In India, 40 million vultures were reduced to nearly zero by the presence of veterinary painkillers, lethal to vultures, in cattle carcasses.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
“Mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons systems are the equivalently reckless domain for today’s frontier models.”
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
“Individuals who lived, fed, groomed and patrolled together for years became targets of lethal attacks on the basis of their new group membership,” the authors reported recently in the journal Science.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
The policy shift, which ends Tokyo's self-imposed restraint on the sale of lethal arms, comes as it seeks to enter the international arms market, hoping to bolster national defence as well as boost economic growth.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
She throws straight and true, and her delivery is, like, lethal.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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