passes away
Example Sentences
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"Jasper," a man with severe constipation who passes away in the sweltering waiting room, first appears in the season’s opening episode, and can later be glimpsed shedding layers of clothing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Other qualifiers: If your hours are cut and you lose your healthcare, if you get divorced and/or legally separated, or if a covered employee passes away.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025
Part of what’s interesting to me is the fiction that you have to create when somebody passes away — you kind of fill in the blanks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2025
If a federal employee tragically passes away, we make sure their families are taken care of with life insurance coverage.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2025
Yes, I sensed it like the sweat of relief when nausea passes away; I felt better.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
