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“It was the dead of winter, and there was this 18-year-old, I would say, standing in the doorway, hunched over against the cold.”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Police said she was pronounced dead at the scene, and a front seat passenger of the Polo was taken to hospital for treatment.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“On Monday night, it was our understanding that Christa was brain dead and that life support would be removed the next day,” said Randy Spivey, one of her lawyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Misty carries herself imperiously, faking success with a Birkin bag and beachfront crash pad that belongs to a dead lover whose widow wants it back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
And if you see a puff adder in the road, it’ll roll over and play dead.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
A sold-out crowd of 5,000 was surprised when the Braves were down by 21 points at halftime and the offense looked deader than Elvis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Now the creature represents extinction itself—you can’t get deader than a dodo.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023
As the sun begins to disappear over the Puerto Rican palms Wednesday, Allenby manages to work an approach—into the breeze off the Caribbean coast, from a lie that’s deader than dead—onto the 11th green.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 20, 2020
In 2014, England lost to Italy and Uruguay before drawing 0-0 with Concacaf’s Costa Rica in an episode of a deadness that felt deader than dead.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2018
Bluford Jackson was six feet under, and the camping trip he planned was deader than him.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Los Angeles has one of the deadest downtowns in the world, according to a new survey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
In 1873, a correspondent to this journal fretted, “Science is all but dead in England … perhaps deadest of all at our Universities.”
From Nature ● Feb. 18, 2019
August weekends are among the slowest in American sports and dropping a huge fight in the deadest time is a real boost for everyone – at least everyone rich enough to buy this fight.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2017
Though upscale malls in wealthy communities continue to do well, Mr. Bell isn’t interested in those; he visits dead malls, and among the deadest are ones in working-class and rural communities.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2017
I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
