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01. She died soon after contracting a [fatal] disease while travelling in Southeast Asia.
02. Over 20 people were injured, some seriously, in a multi-car crash on the highway last night, but luckily there have been no [fatalities] as of yet.
03. The police are outraged at the [fatal] stabbing of an officer who stopped a car for speeding.
04. The old man suffered a near [fatal] heart attack while working in the garden.
05. Jim made the [fatal] mistake of putting most of his investments in one type of fund.
06. Police report that there were several people injured in the terrorist bombing, but miraculously, no [fatalities].
07. He was [fatally] injured in the Second World War.
08. George R. Tilton once observed that success is never final, and failure never [fatal]. It's courage that counts.
09. Pauline Kael once said that a mistake in judgment isn't [fatal], but too much anxiety about judgment is.
10. A football coach once said that failure is not [fatal], but failure to change might be.
11. In more than fifty percent of cases, a first heart attack is [fatal].
12. The number of [fatalities] in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was originally feared to be over 4000 people.
13. More than 50 percent of all accidental [fatalities] in the U.S. are due to car accidents.
14. The average healthy person can lose as much as one-third of his or her blood without [fatal] results.
15. Five days after the end of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was [fatally] shot while attending a theater performance.
16. Narinder was devastated when he heard that his friend had been in a [fatal] car accident.
17. Latvia is the country with the highest [fatality] rate in road accidents in the world.
18. The crash resulted in a number of [fatalities].
19. The Japanese Shinkasen, or bullet train, has carried more than two billion passengers since it began in 1964, without a single injury or [fatality].
20. There is a proverb in the Côte d'Ivoire which states that ingratitude is sooner or later [fatal] to its author.
21. Eating chocolate can be [fatal] for dogs.
22. Bertrand Russell once suggested that of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most [fatal] to true happiness.

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  • fatal — fatal …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • fatal — fatal, ale [ fatal ] adj. • XIVe; lat. fatalis, de fatum « destin » 1 ♦ Du destin; fixé, marqué par le destin. Le moment, l instant fatal. ⇒ fatidique. « Cette grande figure une et multiple, lugubre et rayonnante, fatale et sacrée, l Homme »… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • fatal — fatal, ale (fa tal, ta l ) adj. 1°   Qui porte avec soi une destinée irrévocable. Le tison fatal de Méléagre. •   Vint enfin le moment du festin fatal de la reine [Esther], dont le favori [Aman] s était tant enorgueilli, BOSSUET Polit. X, III, 5 …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • fatal — fa·tal adj 1: causing failure of a legal claim or cause of action a fatal defect in the proceedings W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel 2: making something (as a contract) invalid or unenforceable there is a fatal indefiniteness with the result that… …   Law dictionary

  • fatal — adjetivo 1. (antepuesto / pospuesto) Que causa desgracia o que perjudica a una persona o a una cosa: Una recaída en su enfermedad podría ser fatal. Ha sufrido un accidente fatal, ha muerto. Has tomado una decisión de fatales consecuencias. Se… …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • fatal — FATAL, [fat]ale. adj. Qui porte avec soy une destinée inévitable. Le cheveu fatal de Nisus. le dard fatal de Cephale. le tison fatal de Meleagre. le nom des Scipions estoit fatal à l Afrique. sort fatal. destin fatal. loy fatale. decret fatal.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • fatal — FATÁL, Ă, fatali, e, adj. 1. Care are urmări nenorocite pentru cineva sau ceva; care pricinuieşte moartea; funest. Greşeală fatală. Lovitură fatală. ♦ Nefericit, nenorocit, trist. Deznodământ fatal. 2. Care se consideră că este fixat de destin;… …   Dicționar Român

  • fatal — fatal, fateful Both words have to do with the workings of fate, and their complex histories, fully explored by the OED, have often intertwined. Fowler (1926) wrote a fond defence of the special meaning of fateful, ‘having far reaching… …   Modern English usage

  • Fatal — Fa tal, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See {Fate}.] 1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.] [1913 Webster] These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. [1913 Webster] It was fatal to the king …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fatal — may refer to:* Redirect to Death * Fatal (Hussein Fatal album) * Fatal Recordings, a feminist record label * Fatal (rapper), a rapper who collaborated with the band Therapy? on the song Come and Die from the soundtrack to the film Judgment Night… …   Wikipedia

  • fatal — Adj verhängnisvoll erw. stil. (16. Jh., Form 17. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus l. fātālis verderbenbringend , einer Ableitung von l. fātum Mißgeschick, Lebensschicksal, Weissagespruch (selten auch deutsch Fatum), zu l. fārī sprechen . Die ältere… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

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