fatally

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Former Major League Baseball player Royce Clayton took the stand Friday in the wrongful death civil trial of Rebecca Grossman, who fatally hit two boys with her car in a Westlake Village crosswalk in 2020.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 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

Two victims - a mother who saved her baby in her dying moments and a security guard who was fatally stabbed on his first day shift - will receive posthumous awards.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 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