dice
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"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
For people willing to roll the dice on a mystery vacation, flexibility is key.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
After his success in Makerfield and then the Labour leadership contest, will Andy Burnham fancy another throw of the dice?
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The sorcerer who led the eldest Pandava brother astray in a cursed game of dice, where he was forced to gamble away his entire kingdom.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Could the US death penalty ever die out?
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
"She didn't have to die this way. Maricarmen wanted to die in her house," said Valeria Racu, a spokeswoman for the Madrid Tenants' Union, which supported Abascal in her years-long legal battle against the company.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Even so, he said he found very little research focused specifically on fathers who die during the first several years after the birth of a child.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
My husband would receive his percentage after both parents die.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Shady Glen residents were the living waiting to die.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Lira dices strawberries and basil for dessert empanadas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
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
Yu fries as well as he slices and dices.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2022
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
“No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men’s hearts. Humble merchants like myself are no more than stones beneath your jeweled sandals.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
Myka’s fro-yo is served with toppings like extra-virgin olive oil, diced figs, Maldon salt and a hazelnut cream mixed with the crunch of kataifi, an ingredient made famous by Dubai chocolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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
In it was some barley, a little sand for grit, bread crumbs, cornmeal, diced apple peels, and sometimes even bugs or worms.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
The bank is undergoing a shake-up under Chief Executive Georges Elhedery, who took over in the fall of 2024 and has set about cutting staff and slicing and dicing divisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
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
One minute you’re dicing daikon, the next you look up and it’s midnight.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
As Winslow explained — dicing chicken, browning andouille sausage, saving the shrimp for last, so it doesn’t overcook — Harris punctuated his narration with a series of small interjections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
The guest bathroom has to be perfect, and Hana and I are forced to be Momma’s prep cooks with lots of dicing and measuring and cleaning up after.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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