dice
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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
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
All the factors above can load the dice for hotter spells to affect the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Swipe your fingers across the nearest desktop computer panel. The dice tumbler app is up and running!”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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
Like Homer’s King Agamemnon, who was doomed to die by the actions of his wife, Clytemnestra, Adam discovers that Eve has, in his absence, yielded to the lies of a seducer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Don’t miss: ‘I don’t want to die on the sales floor’: I’m 67 and earn $19.50 an hour at a big-box store.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Once it became clear that Pike was not going to die, she was taken to hospital, where she was initially unconscious and declared to be in a critical condition.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Two years after Elisha’s death, she wrote her love a poem, “Oh, that I could die and be with thee!”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Like, “No, I don’t want to hear about my life or hold up a mirror to my world by a machine that slices and dices and juliennes all of our experiences into some slop.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
As an adult, you realize more and more how money slices and dices us into First Class and Priority, the not you’s and the not yets, the zip codes and carets.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024
At Wellesley College, Dr. Angela Carpenter teaches the foundation of language creation, which she dices into roughly six blocks: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, grammatical rules of verbs, and nouns and what they indicate.
From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2020
As a Duke product working under Cutcliffe with connections to the Manning brothers, Jones often gets labeled as a cerebral signal-caller who dices defenses up mentally.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 2019
“Bueno, ¿Y qué me dices? What’s the news from the sixth-grader?”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
Processing tomatoes — those used in products such as canned diced tomatoes and ketchup — are also fetching lower prices than they did a few years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
They're 16th in the Championship having diced with relegation last season, eventually finishing 20th in what was Montgomery's breakthrough season.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Serve it with warm corn tortillas, diced onion, cilantro and a flavorful salsa, and you have the makings of an outdoor taco night that largely takes care of itself.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Their defenses were diced up by opposing quarterbacks at crucial moments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
I chopped and diced and minced, and then a thought started up in my head.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
In the first half, Chambliss led four scoring drives, dicing the LSU defense up with intermediate passes and connecting on deep bombs down the sidelines, as the Rebels built a 24-7 lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
On the way loans were being made by private credit, Mr Bailey said there was starting to be "what used to be called sort of slicing and dicing and tranching of loan structures".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
When she and her team learned of the corresponding repavement project, she suspected the agency was dicing up the work to speed the projects along and skirt scrutiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
This slicing and dicing of responsibility and accountability has not only failed to manage the space—it has affirmatively made matters worse, and it threatens to continue doing so if we don’t fix it.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2023
Day or night, the benches below the salt were never less than half-full with men drinking, dicing, talking, or sleeping in their clothes in quiet comers.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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