The meaning of 'a loss of life'
Does the following sentence mean that only one person died?
The bomb explosion resulted in a tragic loss of life.
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Greetings Haru,
The definition of "Loss of life" is: the deaths of a lot of people in an accident, war, etc.
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Ricky,
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"a loss of life" is an indefinite number of deaths. "Tragic" implies more than a few, even a very large number, and/or that the circumstances make it seem especially sad and distressing.
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No, "life" has the general meaning here. If we mean one person, then we write "...of a life".
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