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He consulted with an array of doctors throughout the Central Valley and interviewed county officials, often hitting dead ends the moment he uttered “union” or “farmworkers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

Massive floods and landslides swept through border towns and villages in Nepal and Tibet, wiping out thousands of houses, destroying energy infrastructure and leaving thousands dead or missing.

From BBC ● 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

As I sucked in a breath, the line went dead.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

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

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