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Recent Examples of deathly The deathly avalanche between Camp 2 and Camp 3 always scared me. Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025 Californians must rise and reclaim our Golden State from the deathly and devastating grip of endless bureaucratic cancer. Stepheny Price, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025 Californians must rise and reclaim our Golden State from the deathly and devastating grip of endless bureaucratic cancer. Stepheny Price, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025 For all of those thousands of collegiate Olympians past and present, the roar of the football crowd will be drowned out by the deathly silence of their shuttered programs. Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024 Gomez has co-led the Hulu series alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short since its 2021 debut, as a band of neighbors who join forces to solve deathly mysteries unfolding around them. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 17 July 2024 The deathly gossip started as St. Patrick’s Day rumo(u)rs that the BBC was on standby for an announcement from the royal family and government buildings were flying flags at half-mast. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024 While attempting to return to their present, a cryptic force emerges and traps them on a strange plot of land, giving them a deathly ultimatum in order to escape. Caroline Brew, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024 The chill of her announcement is accentuated by Muhly’s orchestration, in which bass clarinet, contrabassoon, harp, and cello perform a deathly turn from E major to G minor. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathly
Adjective
  • Since Israel launched its Gaza offensive in the wake of Hamas' deadly October 2023 attack, the country has faced war crimes accusations from United Nations officials and human rights groups.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • Days before Trump ordered the drone strike that killed him, Soleimani had orchestrated a deadly attack on a U.S. base in Iraq.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with PTSD, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
  • Advertisement Build a Check-In Culture Loneliness can be lethal during a heatwave.
    Kathy Baughman McLeod, Time, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Those missiles were pointed at Israel, which lived in mortal fear of them.
    Karl Vick, Time, 13 June 2025
  • In Game 3, Ekblad made McDavid look mortal by sending him to the ice with a textbook body check delivered shoulder to shoulder.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • And the mid-Atlantic recently saw its first fatal case of Heartland Virus.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 23 June 2025
  • The United States has struck a crippling, but not fatal blow at Iran’s nuclear weapons aspirations.
    Brett Schaefer, National Review, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Despite life-saving efforts, the pedestrian was pronounced dead.
    Khaleda Rahman Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • O'Keefe was pronounced dead at a local hospital two hours later, with his cause of death later ruled blunt impact injuries to the head and hypothermia.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 18 June 2025

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“Deathly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathly. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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