as in victim
a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed the grim reminder that every holiday weekend inevitably results in a slew of highway fatalities

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Recent Examples of fatality Every day, more than 100 Americans die in car crashes, more than a 9/11’s worth of fatalities per month. Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025 Further details were not given on the third fatality. Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 The office of Civil Defense Deputy Administrator Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV, said the number of fatalities would likely remain less than three digits. Rajeev Tyagi, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025 That works out, the council said, to be about 36,000 crashes a year, and of those crashes, not quite half, 45% or 16,000, result in injuries, and 8% or 2,600, end up in a fatality. Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fatality
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  • Bystanders in the area helped authorities lift part of the helicopter and get the victim out, who was then loaded into an ambulance, according to Sylvia.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The first arriving engine found one of the victims had been trapped under the helicopter, Sylvia said.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • In the absence of independent monitoring on the ground, the ministry is the primary source for casualty data relied upon by humanitarian groups, journalists, and international bodies.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government, and the United Nations and many independent experts consider its figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Fatality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fatality. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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