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Adopting a droll persona — a red-eyed electronic producer who returned from the dead after a Ferrari crash — Kavinsky was a major figure in the second wave of the “French touch” dance scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
You may be spotting bodies of dead bumblebees lying across pavements near you in the summer months.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Japan's south-western Kyushu region has had more than 100 aftershocks since it was struck on Tuesday by a powerful earthquake which left at least 13 people dead.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The dead on the island of Kyushu included two women in the mall and three more elsewhere, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency told AFP earlier.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
I stared at the upright form and was sure it was a ghost, a being from the dead sent for me.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Johnson’s confident declarations that this bill is deader than dirt are easy to make now, when the bill is still the Senate’s problem.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2024
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
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that, as a genre, the romantic comedy is moribund, kaput, over, deader than John Corbett’s eyes in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2016
I can’t tell you what was different this time around, only that when I woke up, I felt deader than usual.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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
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
And Stone guarantees that it’s a beautifully shot reality, crisply realized even in the darkest, deadest hours of night.
From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2016
I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
