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[kil] / kɪl /




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Issues with data are also behind AI hallucinations and agents that kill companies’ competitive edge, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

"Our work shows that MYC isn't just helping cancer cells grow -- it's also helping them survive some of the very treatments designed to kill them," said senior author Rosalie Sears, Ph.D.,

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

It was Sennecke’s fifth score of the playoffs and the third power-play goal in five tries allowed by Vegas’ once-formidable penalty kill but the Ducks lost Poehling for the night.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

This commemorates the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 in which a group of English Catholics failed to blow up Parliament and kill the Protestant king.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

“Who’d want to kill an old man like me?”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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