dead
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We came to bash the dead when we lost both the intellect and verbal ability to confront the living with fact-based, articulate, opposing point of views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
As Lewis left court, the family of Ross brandished a framed photograph the dead woman, and shouted at him: "Darcy Ross, remember her name."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
"I was floating like a dead body, and after great difficulty managed to raise my head slightly."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
While both phones and laptops now have high-quality cameras, the formatting is a dead giveaway that you’re not on a laptop, says Melissa Marcus, a career coach who worked as a recruiter for 20 years.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The movie ended with George, overwhelmed by despair, calling up Margery’s ghostly image until he fell over dead himself.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Now the creature represents extinction itself—you can’t get deader than a dodo.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023
It is now deader than men’s tennis in the United States, although it would be kind of quaint if it went back to calling itself the Big Eight — or, more accurately, the Desperate Eight.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
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 been pulled, the original page deader than a healthcare.gov login.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2013
‘Otherwise you is deader than duck-soup! I is helping you!’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
They did it in the nicest possible way, sending polychrome penny postcards eastward to their relatives and acquaintances in the deadest weeks of winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
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
