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"My eight-year-old was screaming and she thought Greta was dead, she was panicking. It was just horrific."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The number of missing soared close to 3,000 Saturday, latest figures from both countries showed, with 633 bodies recovered -- and reports of some dead possibly swept downstream as far away as India.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Andrew Haden was found dead in an office inside the Edward J. Schwartz federal building in San Diego on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Microsoft’s stock just sealed its longest stretch of gains in 10 months, underscoring how much it’s come back into favor as the software sector proves it hasn’t been left for dead in the artificial-intelligence era.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
You can pick it up on a stick, and it’ll still play dead.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
I’ve seen dead animals before, dead frogs, dead rabbits, but this raven is deader.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
They did it in the nicest possible way, sending polychrome penny postcards eastward to their relatives and acquaintances in the deadest weeks of winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
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
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
I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
