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dice

[dahys] / daɪs /


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"We're rolling the dice with our children," Carter declared at a House of Representatives hearing.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

He plans to pay the fine — roughly one game’s worth of pay — pass go and roll the dice again like nothing happened.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

After his success in Makerfield and then the Labour leadership contest, will Andy Burnham fancy another throw of the dice?

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

He played at dice with some rough-looking companions.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

I don’t want to run out of money at 85, but I also don’t want to die on the sales floor.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“I would have liked to live or die with me in that moment,” Gray said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Aged 25, Armstrong had been diagnosed with testicular cancer, with doctors warning he was likely to die given the disease had spread to other parts of his body.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

"And this is how they raise people in the North... They drill into them that they must die," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

I tried to explain what Togbe had told me about how the dam had changed salt levels in the Lower Volta, making waterweeds and bilharzia spread, and causing the clams to die out.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

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

As a Duke product working under Cutcliffe with connections to the Manning brothers, Jones often gets labeled as a cerebral signal-caller who dices defenses up mentally.

From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 2019

It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries!

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2015

“It dices, it slices! But wait! There’s more!”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Processing tomatoes — those used in products such as canned diced tomatoes and ketchup — are also fetching lower prices than they did a few years ago.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

They're 16th in the Championship having diced with relegation last season, eventually finishing 20th in what was Montgomery's breakthrough season.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Myka’s fro-yo is served with toppings like extra-virgin olive oil, diced figs, Maldon salt and a hazelnut cream mixed with the crunch of kataifi, an ingredient made famous by Dubai chocolate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

In addition to French green lentils, you’ll need a medium yellow onion, carrots, garlic, bay leaf, vegetable broth, diced cooked ham, olive oil, cracked black pepper, sea salt and za’atar.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

He shows me how to make a gallimaufry, a stew of diced meat, onion, and vegetables, with mustard, ginger, and vinegar.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

In the first half, Chambliss led four scoring drives, dicing the LSU defense up with intermediate passes and connecting on deep bombs down the sidelines, as the Rebels built a 24-7 lead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

One minute you’re dicing daikon, the next you look up and it’s midnight.

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

In-between dicing up celery and stirring bubbling meals, which will be distributed to the local area, he's learning more about the charity and what they do.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

Instead, the federal system leaves that slicing and dicing for a different phase of the criminal justice system: sentencing.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023

Two of the guardsmen were dicing together while the third walked rounds, his hand on the pommel of his sword.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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