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Leyshon was recovered about two hours after the ditching and was pronounced dead in hospital, while the other two crew members suffered minor injuries.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Thanks to an ancestor who wished to never feel the agony of love again, any man the Owens women fall in love with ends up dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The combined toll is 1,428 people dead and more than 5,649 missing, including around 800 foreigners, among them tourists and pilgrims.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Each day he tends to the files of nondescript individuals, shuttling between separate archives of the living and the dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Standing dead in the night wind next to the trail, guarding the winter night.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
A sold-out crowd of 5,000 was surprised when the Braves were down by 21 points at halftime and the offense looked deader than Elvis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Now the creature represents extinction itself—you can’t get deader than a dodo.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023
It is now deader than men’s tennis in the United States, although it would be kind of quaint if it went back to calling itself the Big Eight — or, more accurately, the Desperate Eight.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
As the sun begins to disappear over the Puerto Rican palms Wednesday, Allenby manages to work an approach—into the breeze off the Caribbean coast, from a lie that’s deader than dead—onto the 11th green.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 20, 2020
‘Otherwise you is deader than duck-soup! I is helping you!’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
In 1873, a correspondent to this journal fretted, “Science is all but dead in England … perhaps deadest of all at our Universities.”
From Nature ● Feb. 18, 2019
That may be what you consider the deadest time in our calendar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2017
August weekends are among the slowest in American sports and dropping a huge fight in the deadest time is a real boost for everyone – at least everyone rich enough to buy this fight.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2017
Though upscale malls in wealthy communities continue to do well, Mr. Bell isn’t interested in those; he visits dead malls, and among the deadest are ones in working-class and rural communities.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2017
I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
