dead
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Responding officers took Brown to Kern Medical, where he was pronounced dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Local artists, with easy access to Carrara marble quarried just down the coast, created thousands of sculpted scenes that by turns commemorate, re-create or just refer to the dead in towering dioramas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
After a meteoric rise to the top ranks of British academia, scholar Jason Arday was found dead at his London home on Aug. 14, 2026.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Some 100 days later, there are now more than 2,500 dead, with half of them in the past three weeks, according to UN experts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
That despite my best efforts, they’ll remain broken, dead, forever out of my reach, just like this hopeless plant.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
Bluford Jackson was six feet under, and the camping trip he planned was deader than him.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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
The worst possible situation — the deadest, most hostile crowd — I don’t care.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
That may be what you consider the deadest time in our calendar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2017
And Stone guarantees that it’s a beautifully shot reality, crisply realized even in the darkest, deadest hours of night.
From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2016
I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
