death toll
noun
: the number of people who die in an accident, disaster, war, etc.
Three people who were injured in the accident have died, pushing the death toll up to 116.
The virus's death toll is expected to rise.
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The impact of gun violence, however, goes beyond the death toll, experts said.
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Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025
At the time, human rights groups put the death toll at 11.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
The statistics tellingly include the death toll in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a white supremacist plot that killed 168 people.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
As search teams set about recovering bodies from the charred government buildings, the death toll rose to more than seventy, and the number of injured exceeded two thousand.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025
At the time, human rights groups put the death toll at 11.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
The statistics tellingly include the death toll in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a white supremacist plot that killed 168 people.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
As search teams set about recovering bodies from the charred government buildings, the death toll rose to more than seventy, and the number of injured exceeded two thousand.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for death toll
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“Death toll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20toll. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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