drowned

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I’m less inclined to judge people from a distance after having met a man on Skid Row who said he fell apart after his young daughter drowned.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

What began as a sharp reversal in highflying artificial intelligence stocks before the market opened snowballed into a broad market selloff that drowned the broader indexes.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Declan Sawyer, 15, drowned in a lake near Lincoln on Sunday.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Those words might have drowned out the vociferous objections of Banka, who in October sounded baffled when he dismissed the Enhanced Games as a “ridiculous idea.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Sunflowers floated in the apothecary bottles, their petals pale and bloated like drowned fingers.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros