die
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"Or die before we leave," he adds in jest.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
After the wind and heat die down, an atmospheric river event may be in the cards for the weekend of Nov. 13 and 14.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
“I hope I die before I get old,” the Who sneered in “My Generation,” one of the quintessential anthems of the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Coal miners used to carry a canary, which in case of a buildup of dangerous gases would die first, giving them time to get out.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Or how you might even die because of something Dr.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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He and thousands of others were ready to roll the dice, and meanwhile, Raman began to catch fire with young progressives who were voting for her rather than against Bass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
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
"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
Likewise with dice: the probability of rolling a 7 with a pair of dice is 1/6, the same as the conditional probability of rolling a 7 given that the three previous rolls have been 7s.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Chief Financial Officer Ian Borden said that checks that included one of those beverages were up roughly 50% compared with the full-day average, with most sold after lunch, when the traffic rush dies down.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
First, it’s an old-fashioned love story with a fantastical twist: Lively’s character dies in a car crash but is revived when she’s struck by lightning, only to stop aging forever.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
"As they say, hope dies last," he told me.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Her father, a military commander, is killed by the British Army during the French Revolutionary Wars of the late 18th century, and her mother dies during childbirth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
If Mrs. Bessermann dies, what will we do with the body?
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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The flight he boarded in Glasgow was filled with journalists - but most were heading north to cover the Chinook helicopter disaster in Shetland in which 43 people died.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
A Los Angeles Police Department officer died during a training exercise in Huntington Beach on Thursday, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
When merger talks died, it set off a panic that within days spelled the end of the firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Former US senator Jay Rockefeller, an heir to one of America's wealthiest dynasties who devoted decades to fighting poverty and expanding healthcare, has died aged 89, US media reported Friday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Did a single soul care whether he lived or died?
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
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
When Paris entered with his page, a youth in a night shirt, that youth carried in his countenance the fixed determination of putting out his torch at the right moment or dieing in the attempt.
From Mary Anderson by J. M. Farrar
And ye mr of ye ship & some 6. of ye mariners dieing, it seemed they could not find ye bay, till after long seeking & beating aboute.
From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford
But for Luke, the shock of his dad dying so suddenly, and so early in Luke's life, was especially difficult.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
If coal mining is a dying industry, despite all its White House support, what is it that accounts for the persistence of black-lung disease, which has long plagued miners and long been addressed?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Related: ‘He was heartbroken’: My husband’s kids abandoned him when he was dying.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
He recalled how Pio Pico, who helped found the California Republican Party but ended up dying destitute, opened the structure in 1870 as a testament to what Latinos had contributed to their state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
It had taken dying once and finding her wings on her own, but she had found him.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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