fatality

Example Sentences

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In a recall filing Friday, Hyundai said it learned March 9 of a fatality potentially involving the defect in an Ohio incident.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

By the next day, records show that Geraldo Lunas Campos had died at the facility, marking the second fatality in weeks at the hastily constructed Fort Bliss Army tent structure known as Camp East Montana.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

Kala-azar is spread by sandflies and is one of the most dangerous neglected tropical diseases, with a fatality rate of 95 percent if untreated, causing fever, weight loss, and enlargement of the spleen and liver.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

Prior to the Ahmedabad crash, it had operated for nearly a decade and a half without a single fatality.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

Other episodes of mass fatality are abundantly documented: the Black Death in Europe, the post-collectivization famine in the Soviet Union, even the traffic in African slaves.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann