dice

Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

Games at the time were divided into immoral activities, chance-based competitions like dice, and virtuous ones, competitions that required skill like chess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

They rolled the dice with Nancy and made a dreadful blunder.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

So we rolled poker dice out of a deep leather dice-cup.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

“Rich Americans die earlier than rich people in other countries, because systemic problems affecting the health of Americans affect us all,” Woolf said.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

By that logic, you’re never going to die, because you haven’t yet.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Add a sudden pulse of hydrogen peroxide and many cancer cells tip over the edge: their DNA and energy machinery are damaged and they die.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

How many people could die from the venom in a single taipan bite?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

We listened and listened, but all we could hear was the droning tones of the noise we had made die away in the thick timber.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Like, “No, I don’t want to hear about my life or hold up a mirror to my world by a machine that slices and dices and juliennes all of our experiences into some slop.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This slicing and dicing of responsibility and accountability has not only failed to manage the space—it has affirmatively made matters worse, and it threatens to continue doing so if we don’t fix it.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2023

Tyrion found Timett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin