killer

Example Sentences

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“But the social aspect has to come with some innate awareness of what you’re doing. This is a big killer on pace of play.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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

UConn beat ninth-seeded Syracuse 98-45 in a second-round game that featured a killer 31-0 run by the defending champion Huskies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

But the killer was hiding in plain sight – McCullagh was not only at the rally but he had put together a montage of home videos of Natalie, which were displayed on big screens.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

I also believed that once my parents saw the silent cat killer article with all of Sir Fig Newton’s symptoms, they would get help for Fig.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas