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If anything, the sentimentality of such demises lie not in the character’s fate but in an actor’s departure.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2021

Outside the nine-episode series, the carving game is a legitimate children’s game that’s played in South Korea – sans gory demises.

From Fox News • Oct. 10, 2021

Several grim demises later, it spoils nothing to say that she's a changed person.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2019

He has shed them for horses whose demises have haunted him, especially Prairie Bayou, whom he rode to victory in the 1993 Preakness Stakes, which helped make him a big-time rider.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2018

Accordingly we hear most about them in connection with demises of domestic sovereignty.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir