noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coma victim (= someone who is in a coma )
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There are various techniques for helping coma victims to regain consciousness.
a crash victim (= someone injured or killed in a crash )
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Families of the crash victims want to know what happened.
a disaster victim (= someone who is suffering because of a disaster )
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Aid is being given to the disaster victims.
a murder victim (= someone who has been murdered )
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The family of the murder victim pleaded for information to find the killer.
a stroke patient/victim
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Some stroke victims recover fully.
a victim of crime
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Victims of crime do not always report the offence.
a victim of discrimination (= someone who has experienced discrimination )
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Victims of discrimination have the right to make a complaint.
an accident victim
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One of the accident victims is still trapped in his vehicle.
fashion victim
rape victim
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a rape victim
the victim of a plot
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He was the victim of a plot by his political opponents.
the victim of an attack
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She was the victim of an attack in her own home.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
innocent
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The crawling and wriggling carcasses had been the innocent victims of the chaos taking possession of their world.
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I can not see her as an innocent victim of a nasty and dissolute hippie.
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She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now.
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Do not assume they are necessarily innocent victims .
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He is believed to be an innocent victim of a clean-up campaign which included the demolition of buildings.
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However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
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Murderers, rapists and muggers are innocent victims of society, their parents and traumatic early experience.
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For Lisa to cast herself as an innocent victim was maddening enough.
intended
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What if Everett's putative murderer had been the intended victim of sabotage rather than its practitioner?
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Recovering his balance with uncanny speed, he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim .
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Satisfied his intended victim was asleep, he gripped the door handle and turned it slowly.
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Eloise was capable of what almost amounted to mesmerism, so thoroughly did she take in her intended victims .
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Could his intended victim have somehow guessed, from an unguarded look perhaps, that he had been marked for death?
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However, seeing their intended victim was not present, they changed the name on their warrant and arrested Mr. Seddon instead!
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The Fat Controller was sitting Ciceronian amongst the mob, and his intended victim was squeaking with the rest.
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This cowardly and servile Nizan-Pluvinage was ready to lick the dust to deceive the intended victims of his spying.
late
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Immigrant workers, easy scapegoats for the newly reunited country's economic ills, have been the latest victims of bigoted violence.
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A 6-year-old and two adults were the epidemic's latest victims , authorities said.
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He was the latest victim of a series of killings of prominent people in the capital.
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The investments of later victims were used to pay off earlier victims.
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Among the latest victims , are Paul and Jean Williams.
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The latest victim was a 44-year-old woman on holiday with her boyfriend at a caravan park south of Durban.
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Today's card at Sandown and tomorrow's at Towcester became the latest victims .
sacrificial
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And the sacrificial victim is yourself.
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He had to shift the blame, find a sacrificial victim .
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And at their feet, a white-clad sacrificial victim , was the body.
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In most cases, however, the imam was a sort of sacrificial victim .
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Yet again, housing is the main sacrificial victim .
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They were in the middle of a hideous ritual, and they were the sacrificial victims .
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Is she perhaps a sacrificial victim ?
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Now he is Yahweh's sacrificial victim .
■ NOUN
accident
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He had seen similar symptoms before on road accident victims .
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At Advanced Tissue, research has focused on replacement parts for accident victims or other patients.
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It's a message echoed by doctors and accident victims alike, as Kim Barnes reports.
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The Cosbys are getting a dose of what families of homicide and fatal accident victims get routinely.
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Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks.
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Outside, a small but determined lobby of supporters, including the first accident victim to be saved by the air ambulance.
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It features actress Denise Douglas, 18, as a hideously injured road accident victim .
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The previous transplants had come from accident victims and were rejected within days.
cancer
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Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he didn't have long to live.
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Among the seven brave children was blind cancer victim Nicholas Killen.
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But the cancer victim insisted he was well treated.
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Ronald Joyce recalls Lenny helping raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim .
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Five-year-old cancer victim Belinda Giles was rushed in by her parents, Gill and Paul, when her temperature soared.
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Charles showed great loyalty to his cancer victim wife Jill Ireland and deserves a new start.
child
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Dickensian child victims grow into upright citizens if they grow up at all.
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Despite the dangers the first crew want to return ... this time to help the child victims of the conflict.
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Certainly the child victims are not those whose reputations the newspapers would wish to question or challenge.
crash
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When faith can cost a life: the car crash victim who refused to be given blood.
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Local hospitals were taken off the alert for crash victims .
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A CRASH victim had his head held above icy water by rescuers after his car plunged into a marsh.
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Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered some one in the stylish thriller Shattered.
crime
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At a ceremony at the Capitol to honor crime victims , Gov.
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Officials were required to obtain such a statement under a federal program for crime victims .
flood
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The International Red Cross has appealed for $ 3.8m to assist 200,000 of the most vulnerable flood victims .
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Emerado's crews also had a shelter ready for flood victims and helped the local Red Cross fulfill its mission.
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A team of 45 doctors and nurses were flown into the region by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to treat flood victims .
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Tell that to the flood victims of 1884.
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A presidential declaration would trigger federal aid dollars for flood victims .
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Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad invited comments and questions from flood victims .
murder
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Anti-racist campaigners say Ashiq was the sixth racist murder victim this year.
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And the motion by Councillor Jack Newell went further ... also demanding protection for the families of murder victims .
rape
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Lawyers do not believe that women jurors are necessarily more likely than men to believe the evidence of alleged rape victims .
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Also patron of nurses and rape victims .
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The emphasis of the research mainly focused on the press reporting of the rape victim .
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Some rape victims might be lucky enough to encounter an emergency room doctor who will prescribe the drugs.
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Genuine rape victims should always be encouraged to come forward, so anonymity is important.
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They serenaded the rape victim inside, cheering a brother on as if it were a football game.
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After the furore over the schoolgirl rape victim , he risks having a controversial but respectable viewpoint mistaken for insensitivity.
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She also works with other rape victims , which is helping to lay her own demons to rest.
■ VERB
allege
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His defence was that of self-defence; he alleged that the victim had attacked him first.
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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles put Llanos on leave in 1994, after the first alleged victim demanded action.
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The alleged victim failed to appear in court, and now the case is on appeal in a federal court.
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Even the rape case against him began falling apart when his alleged victim failed to appear in court.
become
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Yesterday Silvino Francisco became his victim for the second time.
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From a human relations point of view, Janet had outsmarted Hazel by refusing to become a victim over a trivial matter.
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Of course, when the time came, Doyle became a victim of an attitude which he had helped to foster.
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The doctors had also become victims .
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I became the victim in what was a wholly unbalanced relationship.
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A child under ten had only three chances in a thousand of becoming the victim of a severe attack of polio.
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Last night a spokeswoman for the Arts Centre said the festival has become a victim of its own success.
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She, too, becomes a victim .
blame
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The Employment Training Scheme is a classic example of blaming the victim .
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But this conclusion blames the victim .
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What is wrong is the tendency to generalise negative attitudes and to blame the victim .
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When counselors, pastors and the church blame the victim , they unwittingly become part of the problem.
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This is more than blaming the victim , it involves making the victim part of the problem.
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When does encouraging women to be appropriately cautious amount to blaming the victim ?
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There are a range of behaviours and relationships which provide a variety of ways of blaming the victim .
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They do not blame the victims .
claim
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Physical abuse at home, especially wife beating, claims a victim every fifteen seconds.
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They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters.
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None the less, ignorance and poverty continue to claim victims , particularly malnourished slum children, who are the most susceptible.
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In an average year, about 35 babies suffer rubella damage, but an epidemic will normally claim about 70 victims .
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Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop.
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However, fellow evangelical pilgrims claimed they were victims of religious persecution.
fall
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In June 1183, the Young King fell victim to a sudden attack of dysentery and died a few days later.
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For one thing, government economic statistics have fallen victim to the fiscal paralysis in Washington.
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Not one has ever fallen victim to a gangland-style hit after coming forward with solid information.
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Many of you who do use your talents and prosper in the business may fall victim to its pressures.
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Eventually, however, Taylor Walker fell victim of Ind Coope in 1959, closing two years later.
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In his failure to take these differences into account, Leibniz fell victim to his reliance on secondary sources.
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Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
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Some prisoners who would not normally have received the death sentence may have fallen victim to political interference in the judicial process.
help
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Is it not your duty to do something about it, to help such victims ?
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The U.S. government has pledged about $ 9 million to help the victims .
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Stop the suffering ... two million pounds to help victims of domestic violence.
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She wants to work full-time helping rape victims .
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Despite the dangers the first crew want to return ... this time to help the child victims of the conflict.
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Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks.
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Later Caroline specialised in Special Needs classes and introduced the first class to help stroke victims .
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The movement's struggle with authorities to help the victims of post-traumatic stress disorder and Agent Orange had undeniable significance.
kill
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Generally a mild or even invisible infection in the young, the disease mysteriously often cripples or kills older victims .
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Larkin, above: brandishing an open razor, intending to frighten the victim's man and inadvertently killing the victim.
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Nor is it clear what killed those victims .
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When children kill they typically target victims smaller and more defenseless than themselves.
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With amateurs there's no point in paying, they're likely to kill the victim off anyway, out of fear.
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It kills its victims with venomous fangs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me
fall victim/prey to sth/sb
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A number of woodcutters and honey-hunters have fallen victim to Sunderbans tigers.
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All these animals, and others, had fallen prey to the apprentice hunters.
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But he suddenly fell victim to his own pride and courage.
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Even Jim Harrick fell victim to the mood.
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It really seems as if some drivers fall prey to a death wish when freezing fog descends.
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Surely Cynthia didn't fall victim to the same fear?
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This way, Tucson can avoid falling prey to wildcat subdivisions on its fringes.
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You have to assume that Mobs will occasionally fall prey to animosity come what may.
innocent victims/bystanders/people etc
intended target/victim/destination etc
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After they failed to find their intended victim, they embarked on an indiscriminate anti-foreigner rampage.
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Eloise was capable of what almost amounted to mesmerism, so thoroughly did she take in her intended victims.
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It can not move and shoot in the same turn, except that it can be turned to face its intended target.
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Recovering his balance with uncanny speed, he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim.
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Satisfied his intended victim was asleep, he gripped the door handle and turned it slowly.
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Was the call-girl the intended victim?
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We are near our intended target and head directly there with a vector supplied from above, but we find nothing.
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What if Everett's putative murderer had been the intended victim of sabotage rather than its practitioner?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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victims of domestic abuse
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a victim of circumstance
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a murder victim
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Heart attack victims stand a better chance if they are treated immediately.
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In most sexual offences, the attacker is known to the victim .
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It is all too common to blame the victim in rape cases.
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One of the bombing victims was dead on arrival in hospital.
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Our aim is to help victims of crime.
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She had been the victim of a particularly vicious attack.
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The victim was shaken, but physically unharmed.
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The program was grossly insensitive to Holocaust victims.
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They are launching a massive aid program to help the famine victims.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the first victims were not black, as you might surmise, but white men.
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Children, too, are the main victims of landmines.
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He was ordered to compensate all of the victims of the fire and pay a heavy fine.
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If the person's heart was heavy with misdeeds, the Devourer would consume the victim and they would never find peace.
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Is that what you meant by killers and victims?
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The victim still had a small piece of metal from the van in his leg, he added.
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We maintain the hope that Gil will be the last victim .