dice
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Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
That, and the fact that many of the people making these movies and shows rolled 20-sided dice with their pals back in the day.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Being, well, only human, I switched tactics and rolled the dice to catch up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Rolling a predetermined number on a dice nine times in a row, or guessing a seven-digit number first time, have odds of one in 10 million.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The room spills over with sounds of clinking glasses and tumbling dice and whooshing table-lanterns and hissing candles and laughter.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Her mother says the girl thought she might die.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
"I was afraid that I would die, and I was scared that I wouldn't be able to pursue my dreams," Pawarisa Maylissa, a grade 12 student who hopes to attend medical school, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Among the first to die was the man who had alerted Mulholland to the seepage — Tony Harnischfeger, who lived just below the dam with his 6-year-old son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The cells did not die, which was unexpected based on the effects of TRF2 loss in other tissues.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
“No. People don’t die from a broken ankle. She might have to wear a cast on her leg for awhile, but she won’t die.”
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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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
Yu fries as well as he slices and dices.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2022
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
“It dices, it slices! But wait! There’s more!”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Myka’s fro-yo is served with toppings like extra-virgin olive oil, diced figs, Maldon salt and a hazelnut cream mixed with the crunch of kataifi, an ingredient made famous by Dubai chocolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Crisp bacon, juicy diced tomatoes and ribbons of shaved green cabbage get folded in at the end, where they stay cool, crunchy and unmistakably BLT-adjacent.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Their defenses were diced up by opposing quarterbacks at crucial moments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
A recent hypnotic percussion piece of diced rhythms and pureed textures is called “the so-called laws of nature.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Succotash—okra, corn, tomatoes, and peppers—sliced, diced, boiled, then fried.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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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
In-between dicing up celery and stirring bubbling meals, which will be distributed to the local area, he's learning more about the charity and what they do.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024
Instead, the federal system leaves that slicing and dicing for a different phase of the criminal justice system: sentencing.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023
When she and her team learned of the corresponding repavement project, she suspected the agency was dicing up the work to speed the projects along and skirt scrutiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
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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