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Motorcyclist Jamie Fleming, from Ballyclare, was pronounced dead at the scene, police have said.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The department is continuing to investigate what caused the boat to capsize, and to search for the two passengers who remain missing and are presumed dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Rescue teams scrambled to pull 17 people to safety, but after reaching the shore the man who was given CPR was pronounced dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
But we would be dead to the realities of the world if we didn’t ask the question in relation to the earth-shaking miscalculation that followed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The glade of dead horses had been north of the stream where it had attacked Fa, but now the bear seemed to be in the west.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
Whether inadvertently or deliberately, the empty industrial vistas of the precisionists, which can make the world look deader than a de Chirico, capture a very familiar anxiety about Machine-Age alienation.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2018
I said: ‘Jon Snow is deader than dead.’
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2016
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
