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Chaos erupted, sleeping soldiers were awakened and some ended up designated as dead, the Danish commander said with evident satisfaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Much of the drama revolves around a missing Hollingsworth, who some characters believe dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
That strange feature inspired Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involving a cat that is both alive and dead until it is observed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The banker was found dead in his home on Tuesday evening.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“You know the saying: Betray me once and you’re dead to me forever.”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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
History is deader than Laika the space dog.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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
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
