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Just looking at her, I knew that she had deceased.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2016

The first of our friends who had deceased was Bauschan.

From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz

Laramie, according to My Lady, also once had been, as she styled it, “a live town,” but had deceased in favor of Benton.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

And on a certain day he came to a place called Fearta, where at the side of a hill two women who had deceased were buried.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James

Then he carried him down and sent for the woman who washed the dead: whereupon it was bruited abroad that Kamar al-Zaman had brought with him two slave-girls from Bassorah and that both had deceased.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir