toll
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Colorectal cancer was the researchers' initial focus because of its growing toll on younger adults.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Organisers of Saturday's demonstrations have set up a website showing more than 600 demonstrations planned across France, and hundreds more protest "actions" such as blocking motorway toll booths or service stations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The death toll in Iraq reached one million in the same year that Lehman Brothers collapsed.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
The initial news flashes said that 17 people were killed, but that toll was downscaled significantly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
There’s a toll to pay, so Velia put the three dollars in the dead man’s right hand and rested it on the right shoulder pad of the driver’s seat.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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