dice
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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
He plans to pay the fine — roughly one game’s worth of pay — pass go and roll the dice again like nothing happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
In fact, the league is still coming to terms with this audacious roll of the dice five years later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He liked moving his tiger and elephant pawns through his opponent’s blockades, but he became furious if, owing to a toss of the dice, he was captured and sent back to “Start.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
"I have lived through all the stages of the occupation, and I will die here."
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
About one to three people out of 1,000 die from measles, with children at the greatest risk of dying.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
But needing to work until you die may be risky.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
"As if watching your child die isn't traumatising enough, you also have to watch her suffer while these two teams that should be helping ease her pain can't even see eye to eye."
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
“This isn’t a simulation. If we die there, we don’t just wake up back here.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
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
It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries!
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
“No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men’s hearts. Humble merchants like myself are no more than stones beneath your jeweled sandals.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
Note: Very finely diced pancetta should cook through alongside the eggs.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Heylmun settled on pasta preceded by roasted-pumpkin chowder with a sprinkling of celery and onion, finished with crème fraîche and bacon-braised cranberry beans garnished with diced pumpkin, fried sage, and toasted pumpkin seeds.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
The slicing and dicing of available tables can mean there are only so many seats at the most sought-after establishments, begetting a sense of scarcity at the highest levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
One minute you’re dicing daikon, the next you look up and it’s midnight.
From Salon ● May 23, 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
As Winslow explained — dicing chicken, browning andouille sausage, saving the shrimp for last, so it doesn’t overcook — Harris punctuated his narration with a series of small interjections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
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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