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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms 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
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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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The Israeli military has acknowledged firing warning shots toward crowds in some instances and denied responsibility for other casualties near aid hubs.—
Soph Warnes,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Separately, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières said that as Port-au-Prince plunges deeper into crisis marked by violent clashes between police and armed groups, the charity’s doctors are seeing a rise in the number of civilian casualties at its facilities.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Fatality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fatality. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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