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casualty

[kazh-oo-uhl-tee] / ˈkæʒ u əl ti /




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The team said they had to carry the casualty off the hill, with the help of members of the OMM safety team, before handing the runner to the Scottish Ambulance Service.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

“If competitor smart glasses proved at some point to be compelling—and that remains an if—the first casualty will be once again EssilorLuxottica’s multiple,” they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The financial-services industry is another casualty of investors’ Muse-fears.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The demolition has begun at Bengaluru's Urvashi Cinema, once a 1,200-seat movie palace where generations of filmgoers cheered and whistled, another casualty of India's vanishing single-screen era.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Under its strategy, an extensive “autonomous zone” would be established so that drones and ground robots could blunt a Russian attack without extensive allied casualties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

No casualties have been reported yet, however five people are missing.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

After congratulating the crew on completing thousands of combat missions with “zero casualties, zero flight mishaps, and zero working toilets,” Jost’s Hegseth offered an update on developments back home.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked Panama on Friday, unleashing panic in the high-rise capital city and causing buildings to collapse in the center of the country but produced no immediate reports of casualties.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

I look to our bicycles lying in the street, and realize that if they end up the only casualties from this morning, that’s fine with me.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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