fatally

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Following Digwa's conviction, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary apologised to Nowak's family for its response to the incident after officers initially handcuffed and arrested the fatally injured student.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

I also experienced the risky complication known as graft-versus-host disease, in which donor immune cells, even when they are a lifesaving match, attack the recipient’s body—sometimes fatally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

The decision is likely to inflame tensions between the federal government and officials in Minnesota, where two U.S. citizens were fatally shot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Whittaker organized Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign efforts in the Pacific Northwest and spoke to him by phone only minutes before the candidate was fatally shot in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The discovery of the New World had fatally undermined any claim that there are some things on which all human beings can agree—here were societies practising nudity and cannibalism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton