kill
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One idea backed by some AI firms and lawmakers is a "kill switch" - a way to simply to turn the tech off in a crisis.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“I told them, guys, they are going to kill us,” she said, and ordered her crew to retreat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
For a product that could kill us before it learns to tell time, that’s quite a marketing choice.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
A study published in 2025 in the Journal of Economic Entomology showed that bistrifluron, an insect growth regulator that interferes with the formation of a new exoskeleton, can kill western drywood termites with remarkable efficiency.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
He stood up on the limb and started jumping up and down, and laughing fit to kill.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
And as some bacteria resist antibiotics, AI has identified a new class that kills drug-resistant staph.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"The climate emergency kills," he said in July, during a visit to the southern province of Almería where a wildfire claimed 15 lives.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Developing a practical formulation could make a major difference because successfully controlling drywood termites requires more than simply having an insecticide that kills them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Kendall Omoruyi finished with 19 kills for 14-0 Sierra Canyon, which won the Mission League opener.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
But, it’s no worse than some environmental factor on Sagan that kills everyone.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Two years after Helene brought 25-foot floods that killed 43 people in Asheville’s Buncombe County and caused billions in damage, the city’s artists and business owners are finding their way back to stability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Archuleta, whose granddaughter was killed by an impaired driver, said working to turn the bill into law was a personal fight for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
A property developer has been fined £1m after a window fell from a luxury riverside penthouse in south London and killed a coach driver.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Its effects in patients are well documented, but researchers are still working to understand the molecular details that determine why some cells are killed by the drug while others manage to withstand it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Everything about her life was perfect until she was ten years old and her parents were killed in an auto accident.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
It’s killing the farmers who fill combines and irrigation pumps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The Black Death is best known for the catastrophic wave of plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions of people.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Catching and killing sharks has a long and controversial history in Western Australia - there were months of huge protests in 2014 when the state government authorised a cull after a spate of attacks.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
At the dawn of the internet, a select group of companies made a killing creating the equipment and business model for the system of glass strands bundled in cables, known as a fiber-optic network.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The strength of hundreds of men—motivated by the pharaoh and the fear of killing his son—was somehow overcoming the weight of the obelisk.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
