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Recent Examples of victim Lexington Police would provide only limited updates regarding the shooting and would not confirm the names of the two male victims who were shot at the church. Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2025 And Singapore just passed an anti-scam law that allows law enforcement to freeze the bank accounts of scam victims. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 July 2025 State police confirmed that there were multiple victims at the church and that emergency personnel were at the scene. John Bacon, USA Today, 13 July 2025 The unresolved legal process has gripped observers across the United States, resurfacing debates about the death penalty, victims' rights and the responsibilities of prosecutors in high-profile cases. Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for victim
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Noun
  • Death caps are the most lethal mushrooms on the planet, responsible for some 90 percent of all fatalities due to consuming toxic fungi.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 July 2025
  • Kerrville, the largest city in Kerr County, is roughly 100 miles west of Austin and 65 miles northwest of San Antonio. Kerr County reported the highest number of fatalities from the floods as of Monday afternoon.
    July 7, CBS News, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • The business had also been the target of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the past year.
    Rod McGuirk, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2025
  • The threat of 100% secondary tariffs alongside the bipartisan Graham-Blumenthal sanctions bill that targets Russian oil sales are the right targets.
    Daniel Fried, Time, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Corder's funeral was held on July 11, with colleagues and city officials honoring his service and sacrifice.
    Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 12 July 2025
  • The percentage is small, in part, because military service demands an unusually high level of commitment and sacrifice.
    Terina Allen, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Watson, 46, who as deputy criminal chief was serving in one of the office’s senior positions, became another casualty in President Donald Trump’s mission to purge anyone found to have worked in some way for special counsel Jack Smith.
    Jay Weaver July 14, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
  • The Battle of the Somme ground on for another four months, at the cost of more than a million British, French, and German casualties.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • After all, snowmobiles can’t smell seals or polar bears, nor travel quietly enough to avoid scaring off potential prey.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 10 July 2025
  • In that way, Broken Voices is about the circumstances that allow abuse to happen; Vitek is like a vampire, a cold and distant creature capable of great charm, and Karolina, in all her disarming naivety, is easy prey.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 10 July 2025

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“Victim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victim. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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