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demise

[dih-mahyz] / dɪˈmaɪz /


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Bret may lament childhood’s demise, but if you had helicopter parents, these throes probably look less like trash than fire.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

Reports of the 60/40 portfolio’s demise are premature.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

The demise of Wasps, Worcester and London Irish being the forefront of this.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

And he had one other thing to say about the demise of the FTD label: “That first homestand after that news broke, we sold 50% more of that burger each game. I’ll take that.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Or would he have the irresistible urge to walk into the glowing red light, traveling toward his own demise?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

If anything, the sentimentality of such demises lie not in the character’s fate but in an actor’s departure.

From Seattle Times Oct. 11, 2021

Outside the nine-episode series, the carving game is a legitimate children’s game that’s played in South Korea – sans gory demises.

From Fox News Oct. 10, 2021

Several grim demises later, it spoils nothing to say that she's a changed person.

From Salon Mar. 2, 2019

He has shed them for horses whose demises have haunted him, especially Prairie Bayou, whom he rode to victory in the 1993 Preakness Stakes, which helped make him a big-time rider.

From New York Times Jun. 10, 2018

The effect caused by the first demises which took place in the ranks of the brethren was strange.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Having spent the past 20 years in Mississippi, the couple will be remembered by friends and family for amassing a collection of nearly 1,000 announcements of the demised.

From Washington Times Apr. 8, 2018

Photograph: Rebecca Jewell/Ghosts of Gone Birds They are all, alas, bleeding demised, passed on, no more, ceased to be, bereft of life and resting in peace.

From The Guardian Aug. 24, 2011

Perhaps never was he so proud of them as last September, when "Rudy," their favorite fox terrier, unhappily demised.

From Time Magazine Archive

They demised it to the same Gaillard and Agnes his wife for their lives, with remainder to Roger, son of Gaillard, for his life.

From Memorials of Old London Volume I by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

It was demised to her doubtless before her marriage, but it was not altered in relation to her after her marriage.

From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

The bank infuriated unions last month when it described 3,166 job losses as "demising" roles.

From The Guardian May 28, 2013




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