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The press coverage then identified the crew but not the dead Mexican workers, whose individual stories were finally told 70 years later in Tim Z. Hernandez’s book “All They Will Call You.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Statistically I should be dead, in prison or homeless."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
WSJ: Do you think pseudonymity and anonymity are dead on the internet, or dying?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“People live alone here,” she said, “Their kids are all abroad, and old people die in their home and nobody notices them. Sometimes they are dead for a week.”
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Because of the Nanuak, Wolf might be dead.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
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
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
August weekends are among the slowest in American sports and dropping a huge fight in the deadest time is a real boost for everyone – at least everyone rich enough to buy this fight.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2017
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
I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
