deceased
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The news release didn’t state the condition of the injured people and said it was withholding the identities of the deceased individuals, pending notification of their families.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
"The pedestrian is deceased, and is not believed to be an employee of the airport nor have they been identified," it said.
From Barron's • May 9, 2026
It said the person is deceased and isn’t believed to be an employee of the airport.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
While some of those were due to duplicate entries or deceased voters, many were also removed for “logical discrepancies” flagged by software such as too-large families or improbable age gaps between parents and children.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
My own list emblazoned in my brain, I manage to find a dozen files for the deceased members of the Forty-Eighth in about twenty minutes, all with no sign of the archivist returning.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing deceased
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