- singular of dice.
die
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"I have lived through all the stages of the occupation, and I will die here."
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
About one to three people out of 1,000 die from measles, with children at the greatest risk of dying.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
But needing to work until you die may be risky.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
When his staggering financial debts caught up with him, he would die in North Carolina, on the run from his creditors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Finally done, I put the harness back on him and hooked him up and made the run through the night thinking that I was allowing him to die.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Have you had enough of the mayor you know, and are you ready to roll the dice on someone you don’t?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
The project was bogged down by cracked trays, high costs and a dice dilemma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
"We're rolling the dice with our children," Carter declared at a House of Representatives hearing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
He plans to pay the fine — roughly one game’s worth of pay — pass go and roll the dice again like nothing happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Maybe. But I’ve got to roll the dice one more time. Maybe I’ll get lucky.”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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Roth conversions make the most sense for married couples with large IRA balances, because after one spouse dies, the other will have to pay taxes as a single person on the same amount of money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
When my husband dies, I will be even poorer, as I will lose his Social Security income and will have only my Social Security to live on.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
And he says if someone dies because of an AI agent, “there should be some extremely serious repercussions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Many of them said, ‘We’ll do it if you do it in English — set in Spain, same ending, the girl dies, no problem, but in English.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
When Joey Guerrero dies of heart failure on June 18, none of the people in her life know anything about her past.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Noah Adams, a longtime host of NPR news program “All Things Considered” and a journalist known for his gentle voice and genuine curiosity, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Emmy-winning actor Tom Skerritt, whose decades-long career includes roles in ‘Alien,’ ‘Top Gun’ and TV series ‘Picket Fences,’ died Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
By the time Casey died in 1983, the freight world had returned to the fierce competition of the early days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
One of Ireland's most-celebrated traditional musicians and multi-instrumentalists, Dónal Lunny, has died aged 79.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Harry might be an established member of MAVS, but she wasn’t tribally enrolled, and her grandfather had been her only connection to the culture before he died.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Are you living and dieing by weather forecasts?
From Time Magazine Archive
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This summer, great death chanced in this land, manie dieing of the pestilence, wherewith sundrie places were infected.
From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed
And ye mr of ye ship & some 6. of ye mariners dieing, it seemed they could not find ye bay, till after long seeking & beating aboute.
From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford
It was her dieing Advice to her afflicted Laura, who has ever most faithfully adhered to it.
From Love and Freindship [sic] by Jane Austen
I tried being an old bachelor till i waz about twenty years old, and cum very near dieing a dozen times.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
About one to three people out of 1,000 die from measles, with children at the greatest risk of dying.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
"There were a few cases of horses dying in the middle of the park. You can clearly see that they're not taken care of," said New York resident Ron Tsur.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“People were like, ‘Oh, my God, we’ve been dying for this,’” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
"I'm scared because we have been hearing about the news, the way people are dying in the Congo," Patrick Akwongu, 61, who flew in from Italy with a layover in Addis Ababa told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The dialogue spoken onstage no longer sounded like words but like the last ticks of a dying clock winding down.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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