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die

[dahy] / daɪ /




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Before their conviction on 19 October, they had all pleaded not guilty and repeatedly insisted that nobody was forced to die.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Katie: I predict that, like most trends in advertising, advertisers will inevitably overdo it on the stop-motion, a brand will get caught faking it with AI and the trend will die off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

He would die in Miami just six years later.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Perkins, 57, is a big proponent of giving adult kids money when it can have “a maximum impact in their life,” rather than only after the parents die.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

He did find that some people had skin cells that changed color spontaneously, but those were an indication of illness, or conditions like vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder where healthy melanin cells die or stop working.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

"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

While El Niño loads the dice, each event unfolds differently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

She has bought gadgets that slice and dice.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

Amy Allen’s estate plan isn’t focused only on where her money will go when she dies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

First, it’s an old-fashioned love story with a fantastical twist: Lively’s character dies in a car crash but is revived when she’s struck by lightning, only to stop aging forever.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Derek dies, pitching Margaret into a deeper valley of despond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"As they say, hope dies last," he told me.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

On a foggy morning another of the Russians is buried; almost every day one of them dies.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Isaac - who his twin brother Jacob Valdez describes as an intelligent man who loved volunteering and helping the elderly - died on 26 August 2026 when doctors turned off his life support.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

A Los Angeles Police Department officer died during a training exercise in Huntington Beach on Thursday, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Once lauded as the Son of Heaven, Puyi died in 1967 as a commoner in Beijing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Former US senator Jay Rockefeller, an heir to one of America's wealthiest dynasties who devoted decades to fighting poverty and expanding healthcare, has died aged 89, US media reported Friday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Do you know how many boys died on the western front?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?

From Time Magazine Archive

I tried being an old bachelor till i waz about twenty years old, and cum very near dieing a dozen times.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

My private opinyun ov a coquet iz, that if they suckceed in dieing an old maid, they don’t deserve all the punishment they receive.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Coquets, and prudes, ought tew be compelled to hunt in couples, so that when the coquet haz wounded the game, the prude kan nuss the dieing viktim.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

"It's more interesting than dieing, and will be a novelty in this House."

From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Both of them started to turn black and swell in the freezing temperatures, signs that the tissue was dying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Related: ‘He was heartbroken’: My husband’s kids abandoned him when he was dying.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

He recalled how Pio Pico, who helped found the California Republican Party but ended up dying destitute, opened the structure in 1870 as a testament to what Latinos had contributed to their state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Obesity is generally linked to a greater risk of developing cancer and dying from the disease.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Only the day before, he confided to a friend that he “will have the fortune of receiving the greatest honor that can be given to a solider, that of dying for his country.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly


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