lethal
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If astronauts had been exposed during a lunar mission, they could have faced lethal radiation levels.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
So lethal in the team’s first-round win over Edmonton and so ineffective in the first three games of this series, the power play finally clicked, with Beckett Sennecke and Alex Killorn scoring on the man-advantage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
Last month Takaichi's government relaxed the country's self-imposed rules to allow exports of lethal military hardware, seeking to grab a larger slice of the booming global market.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
It made the forward unstoppable, his left foot a lethal weapon.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
A pathologist at the Institute had inspected the meat very carefully and had given it a tentative diagnosis of simian hemorrhagic fever—harmless to humans, lethal to monkeys.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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