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Recent Examples of victim In the wrong hands, the details can be exploited to make fraudulent credit card charges and conduct other identity theft schemes against the victim. Michael Kan, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024 The deer, knowing by some mysterious means that his would-be slayer is a novice, stands still, looking with amusement at buck fever’s latest victim. Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024 All three victims were taken in fair condition to University of Chicago Hospital. Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2024 Among the latest victims was a 70-year-old woman whose body was found more than seven miles from her house. BREAKFAST BROWSE Health battle for ‘Dawson’s Creek’ alum James Van Der Beek has revealed that he’s being treated for colorectal cancer. Andrew Torgan, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for victim 
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Noun
  • Too many state officials have not yet learned that lesson. Correction, November 13, 6 pm ET: An earlier version of this story miscalculated the number of pedestrian fatalities on Roosevelt Boulevard in 2022.
    David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Young Drivers of Canada, the country's largest driving training organization, found the risk of fatalities on the roads on Election Day was 38 percent higher than on Super Bowl Sunday and 80 percent higher than on News Year's Day.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The filing also details various financial agreements, including an amendment to the Perceptive Credit Agreement, which adjusts revenue targets and introduces a maximum operating expense covenant.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Heading into Tuesday’s presidential vote, the Fed would have been justified in celebrating the return of inflation back to its 2% target.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Keep the thrills coming with Jessica Guess’s Cirque Berserk, which stars four teens who make an annual sacrifice to the queen of the underworld in exchange for eternal youth.
    Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Pregnancy, as the biological process by which human reproduction occurs, always requires physical sacrifice and carries the possibility of death.
    Essence, Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • There was no immediate report of casualties or details on what was hit.
    Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The conditions of those wounded remain unclear and there were no reported casualties among the guardsmen involved.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This suggests the influence of other factors, such as the emergence of coral reefs and changes in prey availability, which could have driven the evolutionary trajectory of sharks.
    Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The regulation became necessary when the number of whales near the coast spiked after a marine heat wave from 2014 to 2018 apparently pushed their prey – such as sardines and anchovies – closer to shore, and the humpbacks followed.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024

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“Victim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victim. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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