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to death

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beyond a normal or acceptable limit A movie with a tired plot that has been done to death.

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Recent Examples of to death Clancy jumped out of a window after strangling the children to death and was paralyzed in the fall. — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026 Prosecutors allege that Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband out to do errands and then strangling the children to death with exercise bands while he was gone. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 The 36-year-old Massachusetts mother strangled her three children to death; a jury will decide whether to accept her insanity defense. — Violet Jira, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2026 Noling was sentenced to death in 1996, even though no physical evidence tied him to the crime and no murder weapon was ever found. — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for to death

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