as in deaths
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities
many religions claim to know what happens after we cross the great divide
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Frieden said that, by the time health workers detected this latest outbreak, cases have outnumbered those reported at the start of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which caused over 28,000 cases and 11,325 deaths over two years.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
18 May 2026 -
Those figures included three deaths.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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Yet this is also a meeting of the world’s two most powerful presidents, so ever present amid the discussions of airplane and soybean purchases will be the fates of two other nations, Iran and Taiwan.—
Vivian Salama,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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And within his own country’s history, particularly, Dhont discovered the fates that met would-be deserters who were caught — brutal sentences often leading to death.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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SpaceX, the commercial spaceflight company Musk founded in 2002, has endured a few more fiery demises of the mammoth Starship rocket since that explosive debut.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
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No reason was provided for the shops’ demises.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
26 Nov. 2025
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Sam Altman and Elon Musk have dooms above 10 and into the 20s.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Aug. 2025
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