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Otherwise, he said “we’d be playing with fire if we didn’t comply. We’d feel pretty bad if a boy keeled over. I can hear them coughing and hacking.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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
"When I'm older, when the body's keeled over a bit, I expect I'll pick up where I left off," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025
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
She almost keeled over into the tracks as she howled after the train, her throat raspy and raw after days of privation.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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