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"I looked up at the end of the verse and I clearly wasn't dead," he later told Mojo magazine.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

All six specimens share a previously unknown amino acid variant – a tiny molecular signature, a single letter changed in the protein sequence, never seen in any other hominin alive or dead.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Cemeteries also provide a necessary reminder to us living of the four last things: death, judgment, heaven and hell, which are too often obscured, especially when the dead are dislocated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Tiny pinewood bonfires burned through the night at a mountain cemetery as the largely Christian Philippines remembered its dead, turning the fog-shrouded hilltop into a vast, fragrant altar of light.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

To do this, they’d cut a small chunk of the horsehoof mushroom that grows on dead birch trees, and set fire to it, then blown it out so that it was just shouldering.

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

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that, as a genre, the romantic comedy is moribund, kaput, over, deader than John Corbett’s eyes in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2016

History is deader than Laika the space dog.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

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