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But the health ministry said on Monday morning that only one woman was among the dead.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Griefbots approximate the dead through their text messages and voice memos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
A British national was among the dead in Poland's second city, according to police.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Mike McDaniel is shifting his perspective in an attempt to revive the Chargers’ dead offense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
He bowed his head for his dead kinsman.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
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
The worst possible situation — the deadest, most hostile crowd — I don’t care.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
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
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