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Fairfax County police are searching for a suspect believed to have fled the scene of a fatal shooting in Reston on Wednesday afternoon.

We found that fatal crashes were occurring all over the country.

I was impressed not just with her work as a doctor but her zeal for busting open the paradigm for a cancer that is particularly hard to detect, hard to treat, and therefore often fatal.

Roessler’s tenure in Fairfax was marked by the fatal 2013 shooting of John Geer and, more recently, the anger over police practices across the country that was sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

If you can recognize the sequence, you and a better chance of resisting the impulse to take those next potentially fatal steps.

Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.

Two years ago, a Party apparatchik surveyed the site of a fatal traffic accident… with a smile on his face.

They are mean, unhappy and inspired only by their fatal selfishness.

According to a police source, that fax came in at 2:46 p.m.—literally a after before the fatal bullets flew.

Another American officer, Capt. Edwin Glenn, was convicted of cruelty in a non-fatal turn-of-the-century case in the Philippines.

It is here that the Communist regime in Russia has encountered its most fatal difficulty.

It was a fatal error, for though the Spanish people might despise their King, they were intensely proud of their nationality.

When there wanted only a week to the fatal day, Michael's hope of meeting the note of hand was slighter than ever.

That is a very lofty, poetical, and gratifying conception, but it is open to one fatal objection—it is not true.

The meeting took place within twenty-four hours; unfortunately the result was fatal.

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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fatal, such as: calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, disastrous, and fateful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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