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dead

[ded] / dɛd /






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Three people, two women and a man, have been confirmed dead after a three-storey building that was being used as a church collapsed on worshippers in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on Sunday.

From BBC

"The legislation doesn't work. My daughter wouldn't be dead now if it did work," Morgan Dorsett's mother, Marie Smith, told us.

From BBC

The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

From Los Angeles Times

Michigan and Duke, the other remaining No. 1 seeds, are placing big bets on him being dead wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal

He’s already added his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, even though he isn’t dead, and to the U.S.

From Salon