die
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How do Facebook, Instagram and all of Zuck’s other spawn remain integral parts of our lives until we die if users eventually get weary enough to figure out their existence is better off without them?
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department records show that Magaña was the ninth person to die this year after being housed at Twin Towers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
At dinner last month, she asked me to change my will so the house goes to her two children when I die.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Four years after watching his brother die in his arms, Maximilian White believes new evidence could help him get answers.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“And what do you think they’ll do with you? Make you lord of the pixies? Oh, please, Rump! You’re the one who’s going to die if you don’t stop!”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Have you had enough of the mayor you know, and are you ready to roll the dice on someone you don’t?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Cracked trays, high costs and a dice dilemma bogged down a quest to produce a version of the classic game in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
"We're rolling the dice with our children," Carter declared at a House of Representatives hearing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Jack Clark, an Anthropic executive and co-founder, told the BBC on Monday that leaving AI to be a "totally unregulated industry" was "rolling dice with immense risks".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Yup. I know. But I’m going to roll the dice on a hunch.”
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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The great Bears coach, who became a symbol of Chicago, dies at 86.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
A coach lives and dies by every Saturday and has to worry about far too many things for Messi's liking.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The job is largely a ceremonial post, but if the sitting governor dies, resigns or is removed from office, then the lieutenant governor would be elevated to take over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
If she leaves the property to her children, they could potentially receive a stepped-up basis when she dies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Now you are trapped here, helpless, while the mortal world dies.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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When I was in my 40s, my father died and my mother remarried.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The team behind “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is mourning the loss of Lucian Piane, a former music producer for the Emmy-winning competition series, who died Monday after he was struck by a vehicle in Glendale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
A 70-year-old man died of eye cancer after a recommended appointment was not followed up by health professionals, an inquest found.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Doan Van Cong, 68, and his family spent years touring cemeteries and talking to witnesses to discover what happened to his uncle, who died in 1950, when he was in his early 20s.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
She died at a hundred and three, still hoping to take it all with her.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
I tried being an old bachelor till i waz about twenty years old, and cum very near dieing a dozen times.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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
Now see here, Miss Bab, you've just come Home, and there was trouble at your last vacation that I'm like to remember to my dieing day.
From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The fatalities include a 45-year-old man dying from an apparent heart attack after riding the Goliath in 2006, said the Doan Law Firm.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
How does a parent say goodbye to a dying child?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Unlike ordinary planets, which form alongside young stars, a second-generation planet takes shape later from material released by a dying star.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
She helped me through the divorce, sat with me when my father was dying and stayed with me for a week after my surgery a few years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
She’d been moments from being born even as Clare lay dying.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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