kill
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In Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto, the enraged Menelaus tries to kill his errant wife Helena on their journey home from Troy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
For some, though, this only strengthened their resolve to monitor agents to make sure they didn’t kill others.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Without it, malignant cells become much harder for the immune system to identify and kill.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
On Thursday, two members of Congress unveiled a bipartisan bill requiring makers of the most powerful AI models to build in a kill switch -- a way to unplug a model outright.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
“They’re the ones who tried to kill Mother?”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Anorexia kills a higher percentage of patients than any other eating disorder, data shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Washing or peeling can lessen the risk of infection, but cooking food to at least 158 degrees reliably kills Cyclospora.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
"VAR kills emotions, it kills everything within you. We have gone too far with VAR."
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Alzheimer's disease is marked by the buildup of a toxic protein called Tau, which damages and eventually kills brain cells.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
He kills thousands of harmless insects as well, including some that actually do good, such as bees that pollinate the flowers and give us honey.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
The fire near Valencia in Spain killed one person on Saturday, the only civilian death reported so far in the blazes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, blamed Zelensky on Sunday for a strike that he said killed a sailor on an Iranian commercial vessel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Fire Department on Saturday shared the name of the firefighter killed in the crash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The US strikes have since killed dozens of people, according to Iran's health ministry.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Isn’t it still most likely my mum was killed when the Germans attacked Warsaw?”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
So far, there’s little evidence it’s killing lots of jobs, something some leading technologists had warned.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Actually, what can be more manly than killing a cow and spreading its fat on your face?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Umer, the cattle herder in Afar, said he was worried that an outbreak of disease could start killing his adult camels anytime now.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
A. Dirk Moses, the journal’s senior editor since 2011, argues it is useless to distinguish intentional killing of civilians from collateral damage caused by strikes against terrorists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
I sit back down on the sofa and wonder how long before the aspirin kicks in, because my head is still killing me.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
