casualty
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The cinematic denoument revived some measure of hope in a reeling nation, where the official casualty count announced Saturday climbed to 2,954 dead and 16,592 injured, with thousands remaining missing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
There has been increased scrutiny of whether Rodríguez’s government will allow independent media and aid groups to operate freely and provide transparent casualty figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The World Health Organization said the immediate needs included mass casualty management and trauma care, particularly in areas with collapsed buildings.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
"Our findings significantly shift tubulin's role in neurodegeneration, from a passive casualty of disease to an active protector against toxic protein aggregation," Ferreon said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
"However, there were some casualties on the part of the security forces," it said, without elaborating.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
A doctor at a hospital in the city told the BBC they were struggling to cope with the influx of casualties.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
In one dramatic episode, an American ship, the Philadelphia, was grounded on a reef and captured, but in 1804, the Americans launched a successful mission to rescue her with no casualties.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The U.S. sustained a small share of Allied casualties yet supplied more than half of Allied war material, the “arsenal of democracy” that Franklin Delano Roosevelt named and U.S. factories built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
It is a marvel that our post has had no casualties so far.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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