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die

[dahy] / daɪ /




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True, plenty of workers would rather see these awkward corporate rituals die.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

He praised the official -- known for trying to enhance Ukraine's drone technology -- for trying to ensure that "fewer soldiers die and that drones fight in their place".

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

"I think the authorities ought to come out to explain what it is so that the confusion among people will die out," he added.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

You may die, but your songs will be remembered 100 years from now.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

“No. No! I’m not going to die, and no one can make me!”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

That, and the fact that many of the people making these movies and shows rolled 20-sided dice with their pals back in the day.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2026

Being, well, only human, I switched tactics and rolled the dice to catch up.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

Dungeons & Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game where players create fantasy characters and roll dice to determine whether their actions, like a sword attack or a persuasive argument, are successful against their foes.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2026

“I suspect Trip has a pair of clever dice or an equally clever skill which probably extends to cards as well. I thank you for your timely warning, but a knack is something else entirely.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

When the thing dies, the worms fall away to reveal that it wasn’t always a demon, but a boar god felled by a dark force.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

If one of you dies, your prenup, wills, trusts and state probate law, beneficiaries and transfer-on-death deeds will all come into play.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

“Either Jimmy Lai dies in jail or he is freed, likely on humanitarian or medical grounds,” Mr. Clifford says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

When Faye’s beloved college professor dies suddenly and she’s asked to speak at a memorial ceremony, nostalgia and flattery make her drop everything and hightail it back to the leafy northeastern college town.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

I will climb the bank where the willow never dies.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Nolan thinks “The Odyssey,” in some weird way, “lived or died over that character — she was the fulcrum.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

The father of a teenager from Guinea with sickle cell disease who died days after he was arrested for cheating in an exam has told the BBC he blames the authorities for his death.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

R. James Woolsey: The embattled CIA director in the Clinton administration has died.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

One month before the actor died, he and his wife officially purchased the ranch, with records showing that they closed on the property on Jan. 9, with the final sale price listed as $4.76 million.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

“Do you know how many boys died on the western front?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?

From Time Magazine Archive

You may have heard for this long while he was dieing of the ——; he now come abroad and look a divel, or at least a sad memento mori.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.

My private opinyun ov a coquet iz, that if they suckceed in dieing an old maid, they don’t deserve all the punishment they receive.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

The hum buggs don’t generally live a grate while at once, but have the fackulty ov dieing in one place, and being suddenly born in another.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

"It's more interesting than dieing, and will be a novelty in this House."

From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

The next frontier could be building nuclear-powered ships in American shipyards, another administration goal as it looks for ways to revive the dying domestic shipbuilding sector.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

‘I am at a loss’: My brother is dying.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

As the title suggests, “Out of Time” is less about the living city than the dying one, with a sliver of hope carved out of the ash, rubble and pyroclastic surge.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

"Once their internal body temperature is much above 40C, they literally start dying, they start keeling over."

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

And Clare was just the worthless, dying, undead fox.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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