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die

[dahy] / daɪ /




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Long overlooked, Taro was the photographer partner and companion of legendary lensman Robert Capa and the first woman photojournalist to die on the battlefield.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

One day it will go somewhere none of us can picture yet, because the need that built Splash, Rawhide and other clubs like them does not die.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

"Unless they die or are expelled, they must become disqualified if they wish to retire before the end of a Parliament," according to the UK Parliament website.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Still, the man told Gauna, “I think about the sharks, and I think if I do die this way, at least I’ll be in my happy place.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

I let the cheers die down and collected myself.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

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

In his time as Scotland head coach, Steve Clarke has been pelted with flak for his risk-averse management, his innate caution, his reluctance to roll the dice.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

The room spills over with sounds of clinking glasses and tumbling dice and whooshing table-lanterns and hissing candles and laughter.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Pierce Thiot, creative executive at Maximum Effort, dies at 40.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Financial favouritism can cause jealousy and resentment long into adulthood and, in some cases, even spark legal disputes after a parent dies.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

"They want me to sign a paper that says that if the baby dies due to lack of a nursery, they won't be responsible."

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

I already know Izta actually dies in the story.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Dundee’s son, Jamie Dundee, announced his father’s death in a Facebook post, revealing that the wrestling star died at 3:30 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

The fountain opened in 2004 in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales who died nearly seven years earlier.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

The Great Helmsman, who died September 9 1976, is still very much a fixture in central Henan province's Nanjie -- often dubbed "China's last Maoist village".

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Fetterman nearly died of a stroke days before his 2022 primary, and the close encounter with mortality altered his political outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

For Betsie’s sake I bought plants for every windowsill, but I forgot to water them and they died.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

You may have heard for this long while he was dieing of the ——; he now come abroad and look a divel, or at least a sad memento mori.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by George A. Aitken

Coquets, and prudes, ought tew be compelled to hunt in couples, so that when the coquet haz wounded the game, the prude kan nuss the dieing viktim.

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

It was her dieing Advice to her afflicted Laura, who has ever most faithfully adhered to it.

From Love and Freindship [sic] by Jane Austen

Charleson playing Hamlet, scaling the Everest for actors, reminded me of David Bowie making “Blackstar” as he was dying.

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

This infant, a 6-week-old, was born with a rare genetic condition which made the child more susceptible to dying from measles, Diamantoni said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

"Instead of evolving, there are all these wild populations that are dying off, declining or going through genetic bottlenecks," Bishop said.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

Akira was dying to know, but she didn’t want to press Sue, especially now.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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