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lethally

  • a word derived from lethal.
    lethal
    adjective
    of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal dose.

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Hong Kongers have legitimate questions about what went so lethally awry.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

Marc Cucurella's cross found Olmo in the box and he controlled it well to bypass a defender before finishing lethally in the fourth minute.

From Barron's Nov. 18, 2025

"The air we breathe is lethally toxic," he wrote.

From BBC Nov. 18, 2024

When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your lethally boring Vienna wagon-Circling.

From Salon Apr. 1, 2024

It is highly infective, lethally hot, a liquid that would scare the daylights out of a military biohazard specialist.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston