killer

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In fact, Flaherty said the person doing the MIT interview admitted later, “I’m not going to lie. I thought that was the killer for your application.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Last year, 7 million people around the world, 600,00 of them children, died from a slow-moving, silent and largely invisible killer: air pollution.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

But like all slasher movies, the killer isn’t dead yet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Heart disease remains the leading killer of both men and women in the U.S., and the new guidance emphasizes that prevention must start decades earlier than traditionally thought.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

The fresh-faced blond woman, with cheeks as delicate as a china doll’s, was in cahoots with a killer?

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan