demise
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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
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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
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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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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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