dice
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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
After his success in Makerfield and then the Labour leadership contest, will Andy Burnham fancy another throw of the dice?
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 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
“Maybe. But I’ve got to roll the dice one more time. Maybe I’ll get lucky.”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
But over the last two decades, the already tiny space for indie film has grown even smaller, being phased out by streamers — the place indies go to die — and YouTube.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Oregon was one of the first places in the world to offer help to die for some patients, in 1997, and so has nearly 30 years' experience.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
If you die while a named child is still a minor, the account is frozen until a court appoints a guardian.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
One elder stays put, waiting for the others to be out of earshot, and declares, “I would rather die than convert.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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
Now in its fourth season, Robin Thede’s fearless comedy series slices and dices pop culture, race issues, dating woes, feminism, religion and more into 30-minute blasts of fantastically twisted humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
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 dices, it slices! But wait! There’s more!”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Served on corn tortillas with diced onions and cilantro, the pork is juicy but fried until crisp around the edges and packed with flavor.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
Stuff the grilled meat into charcoal-toasted pita with salata na’ameh—a finely diced Palestinian salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and herbs—plus hummus, baba ganoush and/or toum, and you’ve got a handheld feast.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 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
He shows me how to make a gallimaufry, a stew of diced meat, onion, and vegetables, with mustard, ginger, and vinegar.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
But that relationship breaks down when you’re counting only payroll workers, slicing and dicing the statistics into industry sectors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 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
The guest bathroom has to be perfect, and Hana and I are forced to be Momma’s prep cooks with lots of dicing and measuring and cleaning up after.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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