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die

[dahy] / daɪ /




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How do Facebook, Instagram and all of Zuck’s other spawn remain integral parts of our lives until we die if users eventually get weary enough to figure out their existence is better off without them?

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department records show that Magaña was the ninth person to die this year after being housed at Twin Towers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Don’t miss: ‘I don’t want to die on the sales floor’: I’m 67 and earn $19.50 an hour at a big-box store.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Christa is dealing with the profound psychological trauma of having survived a failed execution, including the terror, pain and uncertainty of believing she was about to die," her legal team said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Master, master, don't die," Sancho said between sobs.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Have you had enough of the mayor you know, and are you ready to roll the dice on someone you don’t?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Cracked trays, high costs and a dice dilemma bogged down a quest to produce a version of the classic game in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

"We are rolling dice with immense risks," Clark said.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Funny thing was, I was thinking just those thoughts when the dice stopped rolling.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

A hero of the Civil War dies, and a martyr is born.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The myth dies hard, and in the internet age, when everyone can find their own echo chamber, it can go on for a long time.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

And, when a person dies, they can currently transfer this tax-free allowance to a surviving spouse or civil partner which increases the combined threshold for a couple to £650k.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

That’s when Luis dies of a heart attack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Yes. But no one dies from it anymore, because of the HUCK.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Wednesday that Jackie died from highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as bird flu.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

When Big Bear’s celebrity eagle died in August, questions swirled over what had gone wrong.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

When I was in my 40s, my father died and my mother remarried.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Alexandar McDonald died at the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen, on 30 November 2025, from the effects of metastatic choroidal melanoma, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

She said, ‘My father died on an ice river just like that one.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?

From Time Magazine Archive

Don't see how the cattle live at all and there is lots of them dieing.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

This summer, great death chanced in this land, manie dieing of the pestilence, wherewith sundrie places were infected.

From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed

And ye mr of ye ship & some 6. of ye mariners dieing, it seemed they could not find ye bay, till after long seeking & beating aboute.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

It was her dieing Advice to her afflicted Laura, who has ever most faithfully adhered to it.

From Love and Freindship [sic] by Jane Austen

A nurse calling for the spiritual care team to visit quietly with the mother of a dying child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Unlike ordinary planets, which form alongside young stars, a second-generation planet takes shape later from material released by a dying star.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

She helped me through the divorce, sat with me when my father was dying and stayed with me for a week after my surgery a few years ago.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

But it’s more than just Greenland sharks at risk, with an estimated 79 million sharks dying in fisheries in 2019.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Gingersnipes reached toward the young, dying fungi, as if to apologize, then suddenly pulled away.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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