demise
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"Every new live-service game invents its own demise," van Dreunen said.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Critics say it’s just postponing coal’s inevitable demise.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
It was Becerra who benefited most from Swalwell’s demise, though his critics and supporters alike have a hard time explaining exactly how or why.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
That’s exactly how the world’s villains want us to be: angry and afraid, trying to wriggle free from the spider’s web while they laugh and plot our demise.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
It would appear that, a day before the moment of demise, the subject was blind, and sufficiently fevered as to be insensate.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing demise
Send a Message: Mit and Miss
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Tuesdays with Morrie
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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