dead-and-alive
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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That process could help explain why large objects do not remain in the strange combinations of states allowed by quantum mechanics, such as the dead-and-alive situation imagined in Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
But in theory, a quantum computer — one built using the crazy dead-and-alive particles we've been talking about — could have bits that were zeroes and ones at the same time.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2016
Maybe that's why I can't stop thinking about the other Will Grayson's huge eyes in Frenchy's: because he had just rendered the dead-and-alive cat dead.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
A grey-haired woman with a very dead-and-alive face presented herself.
From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
NICHOLAS, to see the happy, hearty, bright-eyed boys and girls that came home in place of the pale-faced, dead-and-alive children that left two weeks before!
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Mary Mapes Dodge
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