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die

[dahy] / daɪ /




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One of the earliest to take to the air and the airwaves regularly in Southern California was also the first to die in that duty: Captain Max.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

When you die, you’d be projected to have about $44,000 left — not nothing, but not as much of a legacy.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Are we all going to die in the next decade at the hands of AI?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

These messages can tell a cell when to divide, change its metabolism, produce new tissue, move, or die.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

They thought he’d die, but he managed to pull through … barely.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

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

Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

The probability of obtaining exactly one 4 among the three dice is likewise determined by breaking the event into the three mutually exclusive ways it can happen.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Much like the myth of automatically getting straight A’s if your college roommate dies, there is folklore around military pilots who eject from jets and live to tell.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

"We found that the inferred acceleration is directed mainly along the direction that we are moving locally, as indicated by the hotspot in the cosmic microwave background, and dies away with distance," explains Professor Sarkar.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

She says clients use prenups to clarify if they had the pet before marriage, whose pet it is, and what the expectations are if the couple splits or someone dies.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

Aliet decides, after Kiju dies, to return permanently to her homeplace.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

She curls her fingers together and does an evil-mastermind laugh, which dies away when we pull up to Edie’s stop.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Do you remember the first gig you played after your husband died?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Liverpool forward Jota died in a car crash at the age of 28 in July last year and was a close friend of midfielder Neves, having played alongside him for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Portugal.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Bass said five Los Angeles residents had died in the two incidents and said her thoughts were with those mourning their deaths.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

‘There might be a silver lining’: My friend’s wife died at 60 after a high-earning career.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

“That wouldn’t be possible. She died a long time ago.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This summer, great death chanced in this land, manie dieing of the pestilence, wherewith sundrie places were infected.

From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed

My private opinyun ov a coquet iz, that if they suckceed in dieing an old maid, they don’t deserve all the punishment they receive.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

About the nearest tew absolute insolvency that a man kan git in this world, and think he iz dieing rich, iz to leave nothing but a pedigree tew hiz family.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

But where she was something of a ray of sunshine in “Reacher,” she has been loaded here with issues, including a dying father who isn’t telling her something.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

“The widow’s tax isn’t a tax on dying, it’s a tax on filing alone,” he said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

Dairy intake may also be associated with the risk of dying from prostate cancer.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

The Daily Express focuses on the reaction of Dame Esther Rantzen, a key supporter of the proposal, who called the result a "travesty" and a "failure for dying people".

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

I told him that I thought it might be worth revisiting the world I’d described in Liar’s Poker, now that it was finally dying.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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