die
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Once they transform into adults and their skin becomes keratinized, they become vulnerable to infection, often leading to mass die offs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
"I immediately reacted and grabbed his legs. I thought: 'If we die, we die together,'" Grković told Serbian outlet Nova.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
If you die before reaching your breakeven age, claiming at 67 would give you a higher total benefit.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disorder in which brain cells gradually become damaged and die.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
“My coin didn’t matter. I’m an old woman and it doesn’t make any difference if I die, as long as I pass that healing on to you.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Games at the time were divided into immoral activities, chance-based competitions like dice, and virtuous ones, competitions that required skill like chess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Rolling a predetermined number on a dice nine times in a row, or guessing a seven-digit number first time, have odds of one in 10 million.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Dungeons & Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game where players create fantasy characters and roll dice to determine whether their actions, like a sword attack or a persuasive argument, are successful against their foes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
They’d be shaking the dice and I’d hear them saying, “Make it a seven, make it a seven.”
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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In some cases, relatives flee homes when a family member dies, without informing authorities, leaving highly infectious corpses unattended for days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Fed officials might be willing to wait, however, to see if the Mideast conflict dies down and reduce the pressure in energy prices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Under the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act, if a president dies in office, the vice president immediately becomes president and commander in chief.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Under the proposals, if one partner dies, the other would be able to inherit their assets in certain circumstances.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“Maybe when a person dies they don’t really die, Mexico. Maybe they just go back into the earth again.”
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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Oregon's Multnomah County, for example, is suing fossil fuel giants for more than $51 billion over pollution that fueled a deadly 2021 heat dome in the Pacific Northwest, during which hundreds died.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
The storm’s one recorded fatality died overnight, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday, adding that about 80 rescues have been made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
At least 4,734 people are already confirmed to have died but the death toll keeps on rising as more bodies are found beneath the rubble.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Actor Sam Neill expressed a simple wish for his legacy nearly a year before he died at age 78.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
It could be because my mom died when I was only ten.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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 Hagedorn, Hermann
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
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 Aitken, George A.
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 Shaw, Henry W.
It would allow assisted dying for French adults with a "serious and incurable" life-threatening illness "in an advanced or terminal stage".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
However, opinion polls suggest a large majority of the French people support giving terminally ill people a choice of palliative care or assisted dying.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Another issue facing women in retirement is a coming potential boom in money transferring to the control of women, either through a spouse dying or through an inheritance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
"We have an aging population. How we can stop or slow neurons from dying is an enormous problem," says Strittmatter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
And yet, when Brickbane had found Clare dying on the road all those years ago, no one had been caring for him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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