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die

[dahy] / daɪ /




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"The scientists told us if a dog ran through a puddle the dog could die because of the levels of the chemicals in the soil," she said.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

If you and your wife were to die or become incapacitated, a successor trustee could step in and manage the trust assets without the need for court supervision.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

“It is the single most troubling element of the Oscar show every year,” Davis told the Associated Press, “because more people die each year than can possibly be included in that segment.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Dyson assured colleagues that the protests would die down.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 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

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

All the factors above can load the dice for hotter spells to affect the UK.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

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

“Besides,” she went on, “you have your—¿como se dice? Your toys? Phone and computer. Like you never left.”

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

"We found that the inferred acceleration is directed mainly along the direction that we are moving locally, as indicated by the hotspot in the cosmic microwave background, and dies away with distance," explains Professor Sarkar.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

Aliet decides, after Kiju dies, to return permanently to her homeplace.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

"It also represents that life, death and rebirth motif. Something dies in order to be reborn."

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

When he dies those will go to beneficiaries income-tax-free in the form of a death benefit.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

They fall in love, marry, and stay together until one of them dies.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

Barry Melrose, who led the Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final before a long career in broadcasting, has died.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

Armstrong, whose mother died in 2001, said it was not acceptable morally or legally to leave out the examination of all other cases from the reviews.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

When Kleinfeldt died four months later, he thought the change had gone through.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

His mother had died at peace with her life’s decisions years before his father’s passing, a contrast he reflects on in his book, “Know What Matters.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Nollie had no details, not how or where he had died, not even where he was buried.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?

From Time Magazine Archive

My private opinyun ov a coquet iz, that if they suckceed in dieing an old maid, they don’t deserve all the punishment they receive.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Don't see how the cattle live at all and there is lots of them dieing.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

And ye mr of ye ship & some 6. of ye mariners dieing, it seemed they could not find ye bay, till after long seeking & beating aboute.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

This summer, great death chanced in this land, manie dieing of the pestilence, wherewith sundrie places were infected.

From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed

"Whatever happens on Friday this isn't the end of assisted dying," one said.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Burnham caveated his support as being for the principle of assisted dying and insisted he would want a requirement before any new law was implemented that hospices would be "properly funded and sorted out".

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

I’m sure that’s because of my mom dying and that I’m approaching my mortality.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

There’s no more fitting description of a documentary that’s cobbled together from the dying gasps of ’90s fashion culture, when glamor and mischief reigned supreme.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

I was terrified and dying of curiosity at the same time, but I couldn’t just flee without finishing the job.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo




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