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
She had five minutes left—five minutes during which she not only had to identify the poisons in seven goblets, but arrange them in the order of the most benign to the deadliest.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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