dice
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He and thousands of others were ready to roll the dice, and meanwhile, Raman began to catch fire with young progressives who were voting for her rather than against Bass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Have you had enough of the mayor you know, and are you ready to roll the dice on someone you don’t?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
"We're rolling the dice with our children," Carter declared at a House of Representatives hearing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Jack Clark, an Anthropic executive and co-founder, told the BBC on Monday that leaving AI to be a "totally unregulated industry" was "rolling dice with immense risks".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
But I also felt that the galaxy was playing with loaded dice, which ensured an excess of cowards in our ranks.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"We can now let these offenders die in obscurity while we forever remember and honour the victims," he said in a letter.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
“I hope I die before I get old,” the Who sneered in “My Generation,” one of the quintessential anthems of the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
He would die in Miami just six years later.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Perkins, 57, is a big proponent of giving adult kids money when it can have “a maximum impact in their life,” rather than only after the parents die.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
"Star will not die, though, will she. Rowan? Because you will give Star water from our well."
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
As an adult, you realize more and more how money slices and dices us into First Class and Priority, the not you’s and the not yets, the zip codes and carets.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024
Best of all, Baldessari’s question slices and dices received wisdom with rapier wit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2020
At Wellesley College, Dr. Angela Carpenter teaches the foundation of language creation, which she dices into roughly six blocks: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, grammatical rules of verbs, and nouns and what they indicate.
From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2020
As a Duke product working under Cutcliffe with connections to the Manning brothers, Jones often gets labeled as a cerebral signal-caller who dices defenses up mentally.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 2019
“Bueno, ¿Y qué me dices? What’s the news from the sixth-grader?”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
And when I want something comforting, I’ll toss them into pastina with finely diced vegetables for what I think of as “tiny everything soup.”
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Toppings included puréed pumpkin, diced chicken and sweet potato.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Processing tomatoes — those used in products such as canned diced tomatoes and ketchup — are also fetching lower prices than they did a few years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
They're 16th in the Championship having diced with relegation last season, eventually finishing 20th in what was Montgomery's breakthrough season.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Give me plastics, periodical tables, t.v. dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
The bank is undergoing a shake-up under Chief Executive Georges Elhedery, who took over in the fall of 2024 and has set about cutting staff and slicing and dicing divisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
On the way loans were being made by private credit, Mr Bailey said there was starting to be "what used to be called sort of slicing and dicing and tranching of loan structures".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
One minute you’re dicing daikon, the next you look up and it’s midnight.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
Instead, the federal system leaves that slicing and dicing for a different phase of the criminal justice system: sentencing.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023
In Catelyn's small corner of the camp, Shadd Was slicing carrots into a kettle, Hal Mollen was dicing with three of his Winterfell men, and Lucas Blackwood sat sharpening his dagger.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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