lethal
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Dahlia and Mark sort through the brutalizing, even lethal implications for asylum seekers and more than 1 million recipients of temporary protected status, or TPS.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026
The Mogami-class frigate, which Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force has been sailing since 2022, is the kind of high-tech weaponry that Japan wants to sell overseas after relaxing decades-old restrictions on lethal arms exports.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
“Officers may not use lethal force against a dog to protect property including other animals,” the directive says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026
His lethal eye for goal, his guile to be in the right place, his power to beat a man and arrive on time.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026
They prefer to take it for granted that we only die because we get sick, with one lethal ailment or another, and if we did not have our diseases we might go on indefinitely.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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