deadliest

Example Sentences

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Eighteen people have died so far this year in immigrant detention facilities, leaving 2026 on track to be the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

The crash is the country's deadliest air disaster in decades, though the cause of the incident has long remained a mystery.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

The deadliest single incident of the war was still to come: a U.S. mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

“That a name evocative of Disneyland has been applied to a depopulated, decimated swath of Ukrainian coal-and-steel country could appear jarring as Europe’s deadliest fighting since World War II continues to rage,” they wrote.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

A crot—the deadliest insult anyone could utter—was a simple, harmless eejit, like the thousands who had cut grass, washed floors, and tended poppies as far back as Matt could remember.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer