die
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“If a doomer means someone thinks we’re going to die if we don’t change what we’re doing,” Coxon said, “I’m definitely a doomer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
They thought he’d die, but he managed to pull through … barely.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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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
After his success in Makerfield and then the Labour leadership contest, will Andy Burnham fancy another throw of the dice?
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Games at the time were divided into immoral activities, chance-based competitions like dice, and virtuous ones, competitions that required skill like chess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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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It’s akin to buying a cheaper used car and driving it until it dies; the pace at which both old bonds and used cars lose value slows with time.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Those signals can influence major cellular decisions, including whether a cell divides, moves or dies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Aliet decides, after Kiju dies, to return permanently to her homeplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"It also represents that life, death and rebirth motif. Something dies in order to be reborn."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
My eyes watch the game on TV, but I can’t tell you if the guy from Topeka loses, wins, or dies.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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The termites continued toward their next molt, but eventually failed to complete it successfully and died.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Nationally, National Transportation Safety Board data show that 16 people have died in eight fatal crashes involving news helicopters in the United States since 2000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Sway Dasafo, a pioneering British Ghanaian rapper known for his lyric storytelling and championing of British music, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Graham, 71, died on 11 July of an "aortic dissection" caused by cardiovascular disease shortly after returning from a trip to Kyiv.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
What had he been seeking out here, and how had he died?
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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's more interesting than dieing, and will be a novelty in this House."
From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
"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
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
Those drugs have since gone generic and are widely accessible, but people keep dying of heart disease at stubbornly high rates, suggesting other culprits are at work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The Light Returns was out and I was dying to dive in.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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