demise
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The demise of the four-year-old bull market in stocks may be just months away due to aggressive borrowing at a time when investors have already loaded up on stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Most symbolic of all was the demise of so-called Ćaciland, a pro-Vučić tent camp set up 18 months ago at Pioneers Park in central Belgrade in front of the Serbian parliament.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Much remains unknown about what led to Jackie’s demise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Army, which saw the animal’s demise as a means of forcing Plains tribes onto reservations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Tata Ndu reported the news of my demise.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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If anything, the sentimentality of such demises lie not in the character’s fate but in an actor’s departure.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
Outside the nine-episode series, the carving game is a legitimate children’s game that’s played in South Korea – sans gory demises.
From Fox News ● Oct. 10, 2021
But we can also count on such demises being rendered in ways fitting to how the character lived.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2019
As a way of pondering her parents’ demises, Cross has drawn ancient weapons — spiked, curved, jagged and blunt.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2017
The effect caused by the first demises which took place in the ranks of the brethren was strange.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Having spent the past 20 years in Mississippi, the couple will be remembered by friends and family for amassing a collection of nearly 1,000 announcements of the demised.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 8, 2018
Photograph: Rebecca Jewell/Ghosts of Gone Birds They are all, alas, bleeding demised, passed on, no more, ceased to be, bereft of life and resting in peace.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2011
Perhaps never was he so proud of them as last September, when "Rudy," their favorite fox terrier, unhappily demised.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Was your husband a minister?" asked Everett in a voice of becoming respect to the meek Mr. Robards, though he be demised for nearly half a century.
From Rose of Old Harpeth by Maria Thompson Daviess
The mountainous territory containing these mineral treasures of iron, was demised by the crown to the Earl of Abergavenny, and is held under a lease by Hill and Co.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
The bank infuriated unions last month when it described 3,166 job losses as "demising" roles.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2013
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