They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.
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Act of god
Synonyms for "act of god" (30 found)
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force majeure
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inevitable accident
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unavoidable casualtyvis major
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The action of “The Discovery of Heaven” combines the emotional melodrama of a telenovela with a sequence of events that an insurance lawyer would call acts of God.
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Infrastructure failures tend to be treated like acts of God, but of course they aren't really.
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Heavy rainfall is not the kind of exceptional phenomenon to which the Act of God exception applies.
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