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body count
noun as in head count
Strongest match
Example Sentences
As Soviet spy Philip Jennings on “The Americans,” Rhys stood fast in his character’s compassion for others despite his escalating body count.
He said more than seven million deaths a year were down to tobacco -- an "entirely preventable" body count.
Serial killers’ aberrant psychopathy and body count make them novel.
A morgue visit elicits disinterest and little more than a body count, with Sara wondering if “ten makes a massacre. I only counted six.”
That the United States once again is reeling from familiar but alarming headlines and body counts should not be a surprise by now.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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