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The research suggests that one of astronomy's most famous mass limits may have important exceptions, with powerful magnetic fields allowing some dead stars to become far heavier than previously expected.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

However, when the film begins, its characters sincerely think that Godzilla, last seen crumbling to smithereens in the Pacific, is dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Vlasenko kept silent, so that the Russians, if they were listening in, would think him dead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The 12-year-old Kilwinning Academy pupil was pronounced dead at the scene.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

They were not summoned by him but awakened by the humans’ celebration of all things dead.

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

Good luck to Kroenke as he tries to resuscitate a franchise deader than a stump in the Petrified Forest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Now the creature represents extinction itself—you can’t get deader than a dodo.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

It is now deader than men’s tennis in the United States, although it would be kind of quaint if it went back to calling itself the Big Eight — or, more accurately, the Desperate Eight.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021

As the sun begins to disappear over the Puerto Rican palms Wednesday, Allenby manages to work an approach—into the breeze off the Caribbean coast, from a lie that’s deader than dead—onto the 11th green.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 20, 2020

I can’t tell you what was different this time around, only that when I woke up, I felt deader than usual.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

They did it in the nicest possible way, sending polychrome penny postcards eastward to their relatives and acquaintances in the deadest weeks of winter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

In 1873, a correspondent to this journal fretted, “Science is all but dead in England … perhaps deadest of all at our Universities.”

From Nature ● Feb. 18, 2019

Though upscale malls in wealthy communities continue to do well, Mr. Bell isn’t interested in those; he visits dead malls, and among the deadest are ones in working-class and rural communities.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2017

And Stone guarantees that it’s a beautifully shot reality, crisply realized even in the darkest, deadest hours of night.

From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2016

I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera