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If your pilot suddenly keeled over, would you trust their spouse to fly the plane?
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Both men were overcome with emotion during the ceremony, in tears, and Rinderknech keeled over and had to be helped into a chair.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025
Briggs, an entertainment lawyer, said he pushed for Sibley to become executive director of the commission, calling him “even keeled and even tempered.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Logan Roy is dead, having keeled over in the toilet of a private jet in this week’s episode of the final season of HBO’s “Succession.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2023
In the shadow of the spirea we keeled over, gasping in the grass.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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