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Soon, through an unlikely set of circumstances, Zig is awash in the middle of a government conspiracy that revolves around magicians Harry Houdini and Horatio Green Cooke, who stood at Abraham Lincoln’s deathbed. — Anita Porterfield, San Antonio Express-News, "A military mortician solves a mystery," 15 Mar. 2018 The scenes between Francatelli and Skerrett on her deathbed are so emotional. — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, "Victoria Actress Nell Hudson on Why She Didn't Want a Fairytale Ending for Skerrett," 4 Feb. 2019 Curley had to tell people, many of whom were on their deathbeds, that the treatment was not yet ready. — Erika Hayasaki, Newsweek, "Kanzius Cancer Machine Gets Its First Human Trial," 21 July 2015 The deathbed promise made was to Petitet’s mother, and there are indeed a couple of visits to the cemetery in her honor — but the story would have worked almost as well without it. — Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Petitet': Film Review," 11 July 2018 This battle with tech companies was Time Warner ’s TWX 1.80% primary argument in favor of its acquisition by AT&T. As a result, Steve Jobs’s famous deathbed promise to reinvent broadcast TV hasn’t happened. — Christopher Mims, WSJ, "Why You Will See Bigger, Not Cheaper, Cable Bundles," 13 June 2018 Mortally wounded in the abdomen, Crafton lingered for three days before dying, but not before allegedly forgiving Peachy in a deathbed admission. — Matt Damsker, USA TODAY, "Honest Abe is courtroom star in Dan Abrams' entertaining history, 'Lincoln's Last Trial'," 6 June 2018 My 86-year-old grandmother was literally on her deathbed in June of 2014. — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, "Learning to Be Funny," 9 July 2018 Other provocative Benetton advertisements by Mr. Toscani include a nun kissing a priest, an AIDS patient on his deathbed and Pope Benedict XVI kissing an Egyptian imam. — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, "Benetton ‘Migrants’ Ads Draw Outrage for Using Photos of Real Migrants," 21 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'deathbed.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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