Mats Wilander

There's no way you can go out there and have a killer instinct on court, be selfish on the court, when there are more important things going on in your life, or in your heart.

Swedish Athlete

Aaron Yoo

The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

American Actor

Frank Lautenberg

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

American Politician

Elie Wiesel

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

American Novelist

Mitchell Trubisky

I love those words: killer instincts. Great teams, great players, they develop that, and it's not something that has to be said.

American Athlete

Geoffrey Boycott

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

British Athlete

Pat Brown

The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

American Entertainer

Joseph Parker

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

New Zealander Athlete

Jack Kevorkian

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

American Activist

Jeremiah Wright

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

American Clergyman

Often used in news reporting or true crime genres about dangerous criminals.

Real-life contexts

Carries a heavy negative meaning, typically associated with violent death.

Negative connotation

Slang for something exceptionally good or difficult, often in sports or entertainment.

Colloquial praise

Does not imply actual killing when used as an adjective. It's a figurative speech.

Not literal

Used metaphorically for tasks or situations that are particularly tough or taxing.

Difficult situations

Can be used for exaggeration to emphasize the difficulty of a situation.

Hyperbolic emphasis

In medical contexts, refers to diseases or conditions that can lead to death.

Health and safety

Used in serious contexts, like in medicine, often followed by words like 'disease' or 'condition'.

Technical term

In tech, refers to tools or software that aim to solve a specific problem or threat.

Technology jargon

Does not imply actual killing. It’s used metaphorically in technology for efficiency.

Metaphorical use

 ocean the killer whale is the most broadly distributed mammal in the world apart from us near shore off shore polar or tropical they occupy a singular position in the food web without concern of predation themselves fish seals penguins sharks great whales heck They ve been known to eat moose killer whales

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 A doctor will often simply recommend drinking large amounts of water to help speed the process along, and maybe taking some pain killers. If the stone is slightly larger, medications like alpha blockers can help by relaxing the muscles in the ureter and making it easier for the stone to get through.

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 And there's a whole range of compounds that they do use. And this was not going to be an easy task. And therefore we set up various experiments. Why did we set up these experiments? Because half the world's population runs the risk of contracting a killer disease like malaria

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 Yeah, he's checking me out. When he fixes you with those eyes, you just can't help -It's quite intimidating. -It is, yeah. -All right. -Napoleon's on a hair-trigger. He could go from kitten to killer in an instant. He's a bit mental.

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 the most astounding experience i've ever had probably in my life was traveling down to the antarctic peninsula to film the killer whales for frozen planets it was just the most remarkable experience

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 struggled to climb on its mother's back desperate to get out of the water but it couldn't stay on for long to help her calf the mother turned failure but the killers renew their attack the killer

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 and cardiovascular disease, which causes heart attacks and other problems like strokes, is the world's leading killer. So what causes a heart attack? Like all muscles, the heart needs oxygen,

What happens during a...

 where a deep trench cuts in from the sea as they move beyond the trench wall the grey whales lose their cover out in the bay the killer whales are

Killer

Real-life contexts

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