dice
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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
It makes sense financially for them to roll the dice, but usually not for you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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
Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Adding, we get 75/2i6 for the probability of exactly one 4 coming up on the three dice, and hence for the probability of your winning $1.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
If you and your wife were to die or become incapacitated, a successor trustee could step in and manage the trust assets without the need for court supervision.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Dyson assured colleagues that the protests would die down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
How will each of Barbara’s daughters respond to her mother’s wish to die?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Showers are expected to return to western parts of the UK on Thursday but these will die out on Friday as they move into eastern areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The one thing we knew for sure—the new generation of chiefs had decided it was time for Fireball to die, and nothing I, or anyone else, said was going to have any impact.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
Now in its fourth season, Robin Thede’s fearless comedy series slices and dices pop culture, race issues, dating woes, feminism, religion and more into 30-minute blasts of fantastically twisted humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
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
Served on corn tortillas with diced onions and cilantro, the pork is juicy but fried until crisp around the edges and packed with flavor.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 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
Stuff the grilled meat into charcoal-toasted pita with salata na’ameh—a finely diced Palestinian salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and herbs—plus hummus, baba ganoush and/or toum, and you’ve got a handheld feast.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Their defenses were diced up by opposing quarterbacks at crucial moments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Succotash—okra, corn, tomatoes, and peppers—sliced, diced, boiled, then fried.
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
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
Once home, he flew into a frenzy of slicing, dicing, and broiling.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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