passes away
Example Sentences
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"Jasper," a man with severe constipation who passes away in the sweltering waiting room, first appears in the season’s opening episode, and can later be glimpsed shedding layers of clothing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Other qualifiers: If your hours are cut and you lose your healthcare, if you get divorced and/or legally separated, or if a covered employee passes away.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025
Part of what’s interesting to me is the fiction that you have to create when somebody passes away — you kind of fill in the blanks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2025
"When someone passes away you just want to be able to grieve knowing that it's happened, that it's disappointing it's happened, but it ends there," Cole says.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
The media makes a big deal out of a movie star breaking a leg or fracturing a toe, but if a man with as much wisdom as my father passes away, no one cares.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
