- plural of die.
dice
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Being, well, only human, I switched tactics and rolled the dice to catch up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
They rolled the dice with Nancy and made a dreadful blunder.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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
“There is no way to slice and dice this report to water down the horrible headline,” writes John Ryding, chief economic advisor at Brean Capital.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
They kneeled over the board, and Muti threw the wooden dice and moved his colored bean with a sly smile on his face.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
"I immediately reacted and grabbed his legs. I thought: 'If we die, we die together,'" Grković told Serbian outlet Nova.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He estimates that 10% of people with an aortic dissection die within an hour, though other physicians say the percentage of patients who die at home could be as high as 40%.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Jennifer Aniston has a problem that most aspiring actors would die to have: She’s too beloved.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disorder in which brain cells gradually become damaged and die.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
I’d stand still and listen to the echo of my voice die away in the distance.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
As an adult, you realize more and more how money slices and dices us into First Class and Priority, the not you’s and the not yets, the zip codes and carets.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024
Now in its fourth season, Robin Thede’s fearless comedy series slices and dices pop culture, race issues, dating woes, feminism, religion and more into 30-minute blasts of fantastically twisted humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
Yu fries as well as he slices and dices.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2022
At Wellesley College, Dr. Angela Carpenter teaches the foundation of language creation, which she dices into roughly six blocks: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, grammatical rules of verbs, and nouns and what they indicate.
From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2020
“No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men’s hearts. Humble merchants like myself are no more than stones beneath your jeweled sandals.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Stuff the grilled meat into charcoal-toasted pita with salata na’ameh—a finely diced Palestinian salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and herbs—plus hummus, baba ganoush and/or toum, and you’ve got a handheld feast.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
They ask for tuba compuesta, or “composed,” with muddled red berries and diced apple, giving it an inviting pinkish color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
AI enters a culture already sliced and diced by the double-edged sword of digital technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Their defenses were diced up by opposing quarterbacks at crucial moments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
They diced onions and tomatoes, piling them into a metal bowl.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
The bank is undergoing a shake-up under Chief Executive Georges Elhedery, who took over in the fall of 2024 and has set about cutting staff and slicing and dicing divisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
On the way loans were being made by private credit, Mr Bailey said there was starting to be "what used to be called sort of slicing and dicing and tranching of loan structures".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
One minute you’re dicing daikon, the next you look up and it’s midnight.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
As Winslow explained — dicing chicken, browning andouille sausage, saving the shrimp for last, so it doesn’t overcook — Harris punctuated his narration with a series of small interjections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
After I hung up, I tried to concentrate on dinner — dicing the chicken especially; I didn’t want to take another trip to the emergency room.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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