casualty
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Airtable, a darling of the software-as-a-service era, has become a casualty of the so-called SaaS-pocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Whatever the specific causes of death, this was a mass casualty event, on par with the earthquakes that hit Venezuela a few weeks ago.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
The conflict with Iran cut off a key transit route for oil supplies and ignited a new wave of global inflation, but the U.S. economy avoided becoming a major casualty.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Thousands of forgotten soldiers from pre-partition India who served and died in World War One are finally being recognised in the biggest update to casualty records in more than 80 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
As far as I knew, there’d only been the one in-town casualty the night before.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Chinese state media has said there are significant casualties, while Nepalese officials anticipate "huge scale loss".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Massive flooding killed eight people in Nepal on Wednesday as Chinese state media reported "major casualties" from a mudslide at a Tibet trade hub on China's side of the nations' shared border.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Top military leaders told the president that a war would lead to casualties, concerns about the weapons stockpile and readiness problems for an overstretched force, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
It’s truly a tragedy when families become casualties of things that, in the long run, may not matter nearly as much as the people involved.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Johnny would not be able to tell Doctor Warren the exact number of casualties the British had suffered, but he could tell him that they thought they were heavy.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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