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Adult cuttlefish typically die after breeding so each mating season is crucial for the species' future, but in recent months, just 440 eggs have been counted, instead of the millions that are usually laid.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

You are the one — not your father — who has to live or die by your investment decisions.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

In these diseases, the retina's photoreceptor cells, which detect incoming light, gradually deteriorate and die.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Philosophers call this tendency “hauntology”: Political ideas and movements may die, but they continue to haunt our present.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

“No. People don’t die from a broken ankle. She might have to wear a cast on her leg for awhile, but she won’t die.”

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

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

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

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

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Dad offered to drop the chamber of commerce lawsuit if he’d just go away, but no dice.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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 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

No one dies wishing they had worked more than they needed to — but plenty do wishing they had spent more time with their loved ones.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

When Peter shared their findings with other researchers, a fellow biologist was skeptical of Peter’s claim that a tiny difference in beak size could determine whether a finch lives or dies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

“I don’t know. Stuff dies in the desert all the time. That’s kind of what the desert does—kills stuff.”

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died at age 80 this week, used to spend some of her weekends in Solvang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

A World War Two veteran who fought in the Normandy campaign after lying about his age has died aged 101, a charity has said.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Days after Dolly Parton died, we’re still discovering ways that she made people’s lives better.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

"It is very easy to tell when a person or a dog has died, whereas other features of aging health are a bit more nuanced."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Only a month or two before this, Marlene’s mother had become sick, and had died quite suddenly.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

For instance, Mr. Jones says this dieing back is due to late grafting.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association

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

The hum buggs don’t generally live a grate while at once, but have the fackulty ov dieing in one place, and being suddenly born in another.

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

Scientists expect it to capture dying stars, newly discovered worlds, galaxy clusters and many other targets.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The Daily Express headlines on Burnham's vow to abstain in the assisted dying vote and remain neutral when the bill returns to the Commons.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

But the filmmakers are more than just passive observers of an extroverted intellectual peacocking while the light is dying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Finally, a homeowner runs the risk of dying before the full amount is paid out, although payments can still go to a surviving spouse, partner or beneficiary.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

“I know, you’ve told me a hundred times, I need to be dying first....”

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny