deadly
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His anti-AC publicity campaign worked to convince the public that AC was more deadly than DC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
NBC4’s helicopter was one of several news aircraft flying over the scene of a deadly bus crash in Chatsworth Tuesday evening at sunset.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
NBC Los Angeles said its NewsChopper4, which also operated for the Spanish-language Telemundo 52, was in the city's suburb on Tuesday night reporting on a deadly bus crash that had killed two people.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The news team at NBC4 was covering the deadly crash involving a Metro bus in Chatsworth on Tuesday night when, just a few blocks away, a helicopter crashed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Snakes slithered freely at night, and a cobra bite could be deadly.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
Meanwhile, real-time satellite intel is making Kyiv’s drone strikes deadlier than ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
He said a security guard at the Islamic center was among the three victims killed and his response had helped prevent a deadlier attack.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
That means more people will skip coverage, see doctors less and forgo prescriptions as minor health problems that are not caught early balloon into bigger, deadlier and costlier conditions.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
“You may have noticed one member of the Deadpool Corps was far deadlier than the rest. WELSHPOOL,” said Reynolds on X, formerly known as Twitter.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2024
It was a stupid comparison, anyway—hollowgast were scarier, and probably deadlier, than any movie monster.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
KAMPALA, Uganda—Efforts to halt the spread of the Congo’s deadliest outbreak of Ebola are faltering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration last month approved a therapy for pancreatic tumors, a breakthrough in fighting one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
One of the deadliest single incidents in July was a strike on a reported funeral procession in Nuseirat.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
When 17-year-old student Max Avena visited the site of New York's fallen Twin Towers, hearing the first-hand accounts of survivors of the deadliest attacks on US soil left him "speechless."
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 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
