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The man was taken to a hospital by paramedics and pronounced dead shortly before noon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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
The movie ended with George, overwhelmed by despair, calling up Margery’s ghostly image until he fell over dead himself.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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’ve seen dead animals before, dead frogs, dead rabbits, but this raven is deader.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
The worst possible situation — the deadest, most hostile crowd — I don’t care.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
That may be what you consider the deadest time in our calendar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 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
