passed away
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Pillinger, who died in 2014, passed away before pictures of the landing site revealed Beagle 2 did not crash-land on Mars as had previously been thought.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
"My dad passed away when I was very young, and my mom did everything she could to provide for us, often with just the bare minimum," says Wally.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Co-author Michael Brookfield, an affiliated researcher at the school, also passed away before the paper was published.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Windham Rotunda, who freaked out the WWE for years as a swamp-dwelling cultist named Bray Wyatt, passed away at the age of 36.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
How they punished me for the first time in three months, since Khalid passed away.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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