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
They are focusing on strong corporate earnings, and as comfortable rolling the dice on volatile markets as they were back when GameStop, Roaring Kitty and AMC Entertainment were the talk of Reddit forums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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
As I sat opposite Falconer, gobbling my bread and herring, a quarrel kindled among the dice players.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Mr. Leeds observes that Prince’s final tour, the 2016 one-man show “Piano & a Microphone,” reflected the isolation of an artist who would die alone, at the age of 57, at home that same year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Whoever you choose, whether it’s an adult child, a relative, or a professional executor, you should have multiple discussions about the role they will take on and what you want to happen after you die.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
"It's kind of like if you spend all your water on the one plant, you'll have one great tree and the rest of it will die out," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
The researchers initially expected the cells to die, since losing TRF2 can produce that outcome in other tissues.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
I had tried to block it out of my mind all week—had thought that if I kept quiet everything would die down, including Ba’s anger.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
Now in its fourth season, Robin Thede’s fearless comedy series slices and dices pop culture, race issues, dating woes, feminism, religion and more into 30-minute blasts of fantastically twisted humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
Yu fries as well as he slices and dices.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2022
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
“Bueno, ¿Y qué me dices? What’s the news from the sixth-grader?”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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
Serve it with warm corn tortillas, diced onion, cilantro and a flavorful salsa, and you have the makings of an outdoor taco night that largely takes care of itself.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
AI enters a culture already sliced and diced by the double-edged sword of digital technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
In it was some barley, a little sand for grit, bread crumbs, cornmeal, diced apple peels, and sometimes even bugs or worms.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
In the first half, Chambliss led four scoring drives, dicing the LSU defense up with intermediate passes and connecting on deep bombs down the sidelines, as the Rebels built a 24-7 lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
The result was Gabriel dicing them for 341 passing yards, well over Ohio State’s nation-low average of 141.2 yards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
The men of the Golden Company were outside their tents, dicing, drinking, and swatting away flies.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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