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"If you don't listen to me, how can you come and kill my business, destroy my family's, my livelihood?" he asked.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The question we should be asking isn’t whether AI will kill us or save us, but rather: Are we using the right language to understand AI safety?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Scientists have identified a natural compound that can kill the bacteria responsible for severe gut infections while leaving much of the beneficial gut microbiome unharmed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

“I was really curious to learn: Why did they kill this guy?”

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

“But it’s too dangerous to open. I can’t risk it. My mother would kill me. There must be another way.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Effective-altruist organizations are “very committed to this concept of catastrophic risk and how do you prevent it. And one of the big areas of catastrophic risk would be AI kills everyone.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Compared with other illnesses, the plague isn’t much of a problem these days: Each year the regular old flu kills many thousands of people in the United States alone.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

However, cardiovascular disease kills nearly 20 million people around the world each year, with atherosclerosis responsible for most of those deaths.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

That ethereal, ambient thing at the end kills me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

I open my eyes and the light nearly kills me.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Hundreds rallied across Syria on Friday condemning Israeli incursions in the country's south including one this week that killed a man with a disability, AFP correspondents and state media reported.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The students who were killed were all boys, aged five, eight and 11.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Interest in a witness to a murder trial reached a fever pitch after Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Earlier this month, he killed a water bill that would have given Native tribes a larger role in the state’s water policies.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Too many men from our community were killed in the Turkish War of Independence—husbands, fathers, uncles, brothers, sons, cousins.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

There were 86 building collapses between 2009 and 2019, killing an estimated 200 people, according to a report by the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

After taking the position, which had been vacant since the killing of his predecessor in February, Akhlaghi said Thursday he would be focusing on new technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Evans: It was intense but I didn’t feel bad about, as people have put it, killing Santa Claus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The Rwandan government has not publicly commented on the killing.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Slowly, the gray pallor faded and the killing fever cooled from her cousin’s skin.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer