deadliest
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The temblors — with epicenters about 100 miles west of Caracas — were the deadliest to hit Venezuela in almost a century.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
That tally has surpassed the number of cases confirmed at the same point into the 2014-16 West Africa outbreak, which ultimately killed 11,325 people and is the deadliest on record.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
"What we've shown is that if space-time has this non-trivial topology, then it resolves one of the deadliest problems of the cosmological constant," said study co-author Stephon Alexander, a professor of physics at Brown.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
Across Orlando and beyond, vigils, church services and private ceremonies have been held to honor the victims of one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026
Even botulism, the deadliest toxin ever known, needed at least 1 nanogram per kilogram to kill a human.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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