- singular of dice.
die
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Warren Buffett put extensive thought into succession at Berkshire, saying “I care more about the future of Berkshire after I die than during the period I’m alive.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Humpback whale mothers may experience grief when their calves die, a rare observation led by Griffith University and Sea World Foundation has found.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Barring some miracle, he would likely die in prison.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
If your cousin were to die without a will, she could inherit his interest in the property.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
I don’t give a care what could or might happen to me—this kid will not die alone.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
That, and the fact that many of the people making these movies and shows rolled 20-sided dice with their pals back in the day.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
In his time as Scotland head coach, Steve Clarke has been pelted with flak for his risk-averse management, his innate caution, his reluctance to roll the dice.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The way it works with dice, if you shave just a bit off one side, you supposed to be able to roll more sevens and elevens.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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While not always the case, typically the older spouse dies first.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Egil dies blind, impotent and frail, but remains a defiant killer and a compelling personality to the end.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
"We found that the inferred acceleration is directed mainly along the direction that we are moving locally, as indicated by the hotspot in the cosmic microwave background, and dies away with distance," explains Professor Sarkar.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Aliet decides, after Kiju dies, to return permanently to her homeplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
‘If he dies, I will be Leader. I’ll make sure of it.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Ramsey, who died in 1990, was the original PA voice of the Angels, as well as the Dodgers, Kings, Lakers and L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ramabai has been the family's sole provider since her husband died in 2012.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The termites continued toward their next molt, but eventually failed to complete it successfully and died.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The former Arizona Senator, who died Thursday at age 84, made the country better with his attention to policy rather than on his media profile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But my dad is cool with it and made Arlo and I go see someone when Mom died.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?
From Time Magazine Archive
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When Paris entered with his page, a youth in a night shirt, that youth carried in his countenance the fixed determination of putting out his torch at the right moment or dieing in the attempt.
From Mary Anderson by J. M. Farrar
The hum buggs don’t generally live a grate while at once, but have the fackulty ov dieing in one place, and being suddenly born in another.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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
About the nearest tew absolute insolvency that a man kan git in this world, and think he iz dieing rich, iz to leave nothing but a pedigree tew hiz family.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
"When I first heard that a tree next to a museum had been poisoned with herbicide and was dying, I simply couldn't believe it," says activist Choi Jin-woo.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Two of these three check out: Warhol and Wilson died as stated, but Reed lived for another 30 years, dying in 2013 of liver disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even so, she was surprised when a family member contacted the laboratory hoping to enroll her dying father in the clinical trial.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
But where she was something of a ray of sunshine in “Reacher,” she has been loaded here with issues, including a dying father who isn’t telling her something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The feelings of newfound hope and resolve that washed over me when I traveled to 1965 return, even as I lie dying.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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