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Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.

Two years ago, a Party apparatchik surveyed the site of a fatal traffic accident… with a smile on his face.

They are mean, unhappy and inspired only by their fatal selfishness.

According to a police source, that fax came in at 2:46 p.m.—literally a after before the fatal bullets flew.

Another American officer, Capt. Edwin Glenn, was convicted of cruelty in a non-fatal turn-of-the-century case in the Philippines.

It is here that the Communist regime in Russia has encountered its most fatal difficulty.

It was a fatal error, for though the Spanish people might despise their King, they were intensely proud of their nationality.

When there wanted only a week to the fatal day, Michael's hope of meeting the note of hand was slighter than ever.

That is a very lofty, poetical, and gratifying conception, but it is open to one fatal objection—it is not true.

The meeting took place within twenty-four hours; unfortunately the result was fatal.

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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fatal, such as: calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, disastrous, and fateful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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