demise
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Sora’s demise points to more than the collapse of a big-media financial deal.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Amid the white-out winters of New York, a man whose bones had never known the bite of cold found not a sanctuary but demise.
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026
He has spoken to the world about his impending demise like a Christian philosopher of death—frank, unafraid, sometimes folksy, always graceful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Queens Park Rangers' demise was less nostalgia-tinged decline and more a combustible two-season spell fuelled by big reputations earning bigger bucks.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Mark lost his grip on the flashlight, which went tumbling end over end outside; a clang and the crack of glass signaled its demise.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
Vocabulary lists containing demise
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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