sufferers

Definition of sufferersnext
plural of sufferer

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victims
Noun
  • Some of the victims had been wearing backpacks equipped with airbags that can help keep people on the surface of an avalanche, but had not pulled the cords to deploy the bags, the report said.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Peter Barnum, one of the people on shore who raced to the rescue, described the exhaustion of one of the victims, the father.
    Ted Scouten, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
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“Sufferers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sufferers. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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