lethal
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“Our overt preference is to buy American,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last year as he introduced Drone Dominance, a $1.1 billion Pentagon program to purchase small, lethal drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
He said: "That investigation generated insight that enabled one of our international partners to prevent a lethal attack on their soil."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The philosophical problem is more fundamental: Execution by lethal injection is dishonest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Drugs for lethal injections are also hard to obtain because many pharmaceutical companies do not want to sell the medications to prisons for that use, since they were developed for life-saving purposes.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The smells around him carried no lethal meaning.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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