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Not her, of course, but Claire Bennet — the Odessa, Texas high school cheerleader who couldn’t be killed.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Plus, Lavina and McCollum and the community members they organized don’t just want hyperscale centers out of all PGC land; they also want the Landover proposal to be killed for good.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

“All of California’s native biodiversity go into that contaminated hive,” he said, and can be killed off as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

So the Sora video-generating app was canceled, and my guess is the Atlas browser—plus a mysterious hardware device by designer diva Jony Ive—may be the next to be killed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

Many microorganisms would be killed; we do not know which ones or how many, or what the consequences might be.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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