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Younger audiophiles revived the medium from the dead starting in 2008 for many reasons, the simplest being that digital downloads don’t include eye-popping cover art.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
Fluid at the tumor's advancing edge is approximately eight times more viscous than fluid in its dead tissue at the center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The dead hand of accountancy can also be seen in the simplified surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
For what seemed hours we prayed for our country, for the dead and injured tonight, for the Queen.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
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
I’ve seen dead animals before, dead frogs, dead rabbits, but this raven is deader.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
That may be what you consider the deadest time in our calendar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 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
Christmas, like other winter-solstice holidays, evolved in part as an antidote to the darkest, deadest time of year.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2015
I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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