dice
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And this time the roll of the dice didn’t work, with Turkey getting its only win of the tournament on its last touch of the World Cup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Being, well, only human, I switched tactics and rolled the dice to catch up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
So investors with accounts at any of these five brokerages can roll the dice and try to get SpaceX shares at the IPO price.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
"It was sort of the throw of the dice."
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Well, we’re all staring at it, trying to figure out where it come from, what it could be, when Jeanne starts shaking like dice in a cup.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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"I immediately reacted and grabbed his legs. I thought: 'If we die, we die together,'" Grković told Serbian outlet Nova.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He estimates that 10% of people with an aortic dissection die within an hour, though other physicians say the percentage of patients who die at home could be as high as 40%.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
More than half of adults with learning disabilities in England die before the age of 65, an annual report into mortality suggests.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Jennifer Aniston has a problem that most aspiring actors would die to have: She’s too beloved.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
It took thirteen months for a baby manatee to be born, and if the hunting and trapping continued, they were going to die out.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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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
Michael C. Hall slices and dices the departing ‘Dexter’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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
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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
They ask for tuba compuesta, or “composed,” with muddled red berries and diced apple, giving it an inviting pinkish color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
When Raspados Nayarit serves its tuba compuesta — vibrant pink, chilled and topped with diced apples and peanuts — it is a reminder of home for Colimenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Their defenses were diced up by opposing quarterbacks at crucial moments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
There were all kinds of green vegetables in the chow yuk—string beans and pea pods, and also pieces of diced chicken.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
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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
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
Day or night, the benches below the salt were never less than half-full with men drinking, dicing, talking, or sleeping in their clothes in quiet comers.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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