Fatality
noun
Death caused by an accident or a disaster.
The car accident resulted in one fatality.
Often appears as...
- traffic fatality
- accident fatality
noun
The ability to cause death or disaster.
The fatality of the disease is not yet known.
Often appears as...
- disease fatality
- venom fatality
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Formal
Academic
noun
The fact of death being inevitable.
She accepted the fatality of life.
Often appears as...
- accept fatality
- embrace fatality
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Formal, Negative
Literary
noun
Death caused by an accident or a disaster.
The car accident resulted in one fatality.
Often appears as...
- traffic fatality
- accident fatality
noun
The ability to cause death or disaster.
The fatality of the disease is not yet known.
Often appears as...
- disease fatality
- venom fatality
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
The fact of death being inevitable.
She accepted the fatality of life.
Often appears as...
- accept fatality
- embrace fatality
Usage tips
Formal, Negative
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Events
Use 'fatality' when referring to sudden deaths due to accidents or unforeseen events, not natural causes.
A lightning strike led to a fatality on the golf course.
Pro Tip 2/3News Reporting
'Fatality' is often used in news to report deaths from public incidents, giving an objective tone.
The earthquake caused numerous fatalities.
Pro Tip 3/3General Statistics
Use 'fatality' when discussing statistics, especially in fields like public health and safety.
The yearly report showed a decline in traffic fatalities.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Events
Use 'fatality' when referring to sudden deaths due to accidents or unforeseen events, not natural causes.
A lightning strike led to a fatality on the golf course.
Pro Tip 2/3News Reporting
'Fatality' is often used in news to report deaths from public incidents, giving an objective tone.
The earthquake caused numerous fatalities.
Pro Tip 3/3General Statistics
Use 'fatality' when discussing statistics, especially in fields like public health and safety.
The yearly report showed a decline in traffic fatalities.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Events
Use 'fatality' when referring to sudden deaths due to accidents or unforeseen events, not natural causes.
A lightning strike led to a fatality on the golf course.
Pro Tip 2/3News Reporting
'Fatality' is often used in news to report deaths from public incidents, giving an objective tone.
The earthquake caused numerous fatalities.
Pro Tip 3/3General Statistics
Use 'fatality' when discussing statistics, especially in fields like public health and safety.
The yearly report showed a decline in traffic fatalities.
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How the coronavirus...
is this is just a you know a factual matter and more importantly we need to have the best data we need to know what the actual fatality rate is whatever then you know be mistakes people made in the past whatever the model said but it's very difficult to even take something like data and completely
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How we must respond to...
You'll overload your medical system, so your case fatality rate, instead of being one percent, will be like three, four percent. And so, the idea, it's very irresponsible for somebody to suggest we can have the best of both worlds. What we need is the extreme shutdown
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Risk Takers: Working...
but really nothing too serious typically. If you go up another level, bio-safety level three, that's when things start getting a little more serious. These are viruses and bacteria where you have higher case fatality rates. You have more personal protective equipment
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Why the @#$ is there so...
Traffic jams are not only a daily annoyance– they’re a major cause of fatalities, wasted resources, and planet-threatening pollution. But new technology may help reduce these patterns, rendering our roads safer, our daily commutes more efficient, and our air cleaner.
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Baby Parrots Rescued...
most baby parrots never even make it to market the vast majority die on root the way the people carry these animals is completely inhumane they're wrapped up in plastic bags they usually can't breathe and that is why there's a lot of fatalities
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Steven Levitt on child...
Thank you very much. I just wanted to ask you, when we wear seatbelts we don't necessarily wear them just to prevent loss of life, it's also to prevent lots of serious injury. Your data looks at fatalities. It doesn't look at serious injury.
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Daylight Saving Time 101...
shift to and from daylight saving time has been linked to an increased risk in heart attacks and automobile fatalities there's no shortage of opinion when it comes to daylight saving time and whether the world will agree on how to
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A radical plan to end...
And the scary part about that was, sure, I learned a lot about marine life, but it taught me more about marine death and the extreme mass ecological fatality of fish, of marine life, marine mammals, very close biology to us,
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Uğur Şahin and Özlem...
Severe infection and fatalities were almost completely protected against, I think. And it must have been an ecstatic moment for you. Certainly was for so many people around the world. Yes, absolutely.
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Eating Poison Fish PIPE...
this is my fugue license after world war ii fugu fatality skyrocketed starving japanese would comb restaurant trash bins they'd salvage discarded fugu grill the
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How the coronavirus...
is this is just a you know a factual matter and more importantly we need to have the best data we need to know what the actual fatality rate is whatever then you know be mistakes people made in the past whatever the model said but it's very difficult to even take something like data and completely
Video examples
How we must respond to...
You'll overload your medical system, so your case fatality rate, instead of being one percent, will be like three, four percent. And so, the idea, it's very irresponsible for somebody to suggest we can have the best of both worlds. What we need is the extreme shutdown
Video examples
Risk Takers: Working...
but really nothing too serious typically. If you go up another level, bio-safety level three, that's when things start getting a little more serious. These are viruses and bacteria where you have higher case fatality rates. You have more personal protective equipment
Video examples
Why the @#$ is there so...
Traffic jams are not only a daily annoyance– they’re a major cause of fatalities, wasted resources, and planet-threatening pollution. But new technology may help reduce these patterns, rendering our roads safer, our daily commutes more efficient, and our air cleaner.
Video examples
Baby Parrots Rescued...
most baby parrots never even make it to market the vast majority die on root the way the people carry these animals is completely inhumane they're wrapped up in plastic bags they usually can't breathe and that is why there's a lot of fatalities
Video examples
Steven Levitt on child...
Thank you very much. I just wanted to ask you, when we wear seatbelts we don't necessarily wear them just to prevent loss of life, it's also to prevent lots of serious injury. Your data looks at fatalities. It doesn't look at serious injury.
Video examples
Daylight Saving Time 101...
shift to and from daylight saving time has been linked to an increased risk in heart attacks and automobile fatalities there's no shortage of opinion when it comes to daylight saving time and whether the world will agree on how to
Video examples
A radical plan to end...
And the scary part about that was, sure, I learned a lot about marine life, but it taught me more about marine death and the extreme mass ecological fatality of fish, of marine life, marine mammals, very close biology to us,
Video examples
Uğur Şahin and Özlem...
Severe infection and fatalities were almost completely protected against, I think. And it must have been an ecstatic moment for you. Certainly was for so many people around the world. Yes, absolutely.
Video examples
Eating Poison Fish PIPE...
this is my fugue license after world war ii fugu fatality skyrocketed starving japanese would comb restaurant trash bins they'd salvage discarded fugu grill the
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
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Tommy Mottola
American Businessman
It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.
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Tanc Sade
Australian Actor
Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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Sharyl Attkisson
American Journalist
Early coronavirus fatality rates as often cited may appear worse than they actually are for a majority of the public because they do not include the many undiagnosed, asymptomatic cases; and because they do not reflect the dramatically elevated risk for the elderly compared to the rest of the population.
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Pritam Singh
Singaporean Author
No organization, let alone one that is in the business of war and defending Singapore's sovereignty, can realistically promise zero fatalities or training incidents even as the public must insist on the strictest training safety parameters for the SAF, and MINDEF strives for the same.
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Jules Verne
French Author
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
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Montesquieu
French Philosopher
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
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Dylan Taylor
American Businessman
The future of humanity in space will be determined by the answer to a key question: What will happen first, the first human born in space or the first combat fatality in space?
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Thomas Mann
German Writer
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Mathieu Kerekou
Politician
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
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Tommy Mottola
American Businessman
It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.
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Tanc Sade
Australian Actor
Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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Sharyl Attkisson
American Journalist
Early coronavirus fatality rates as often cited may appear worse than they actually are for a majority of the public because they do not include the many undiagnosed, asymptomatic cases; and because they do not reflect the dramatically elevated risk for the elderly compared to the rest of the population.
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Pritam Singh
Singaporean Author
No organization, let alone one that is in the business of war and defending Singapore's sovereignty, can realistically promise zero fatalities or training incidents even as the public must insist on the strictest training safety parameters for the SAF, and MINDEF strives for the same.
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Jules Verne
French Author
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
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Montesquieu
French Philosopher
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
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Dylan Taylor
American Businessman
The future of humanity in space will be determined by the answer to a key question: What will happen first, the first human born in space or the first combat fatality in space?
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Thomas Mann
German Writer
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Mathieu Kerekou
Politician
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
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