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One of the biggest questions is whether Marisol is dead or alive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
I don’t remember a time in my film-obsessed life when I didn’t know that, at the end of “The Sixth Sense”—spoiler alert—you learn Bruce Willis’s character was dead the whole time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
I remember not knowing the whereabouts of my father, who worked in Manhattan, and thinking he might be dead.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The "face of Putney Pusher Suspect" is the Daily Star's lead image after the 44-year-old banker was found dead at his home.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Torak turned over and over like a dead fish.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Good luck to Kroenke as he tries to resuscitate a franchise deader than a stump in the Petrified Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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
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
‘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
I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin‑nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 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
