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Recent Examples of passed away
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2026
Sarah finally passed away in 1998, six months after her son Lloyd’s death.
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Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
3 July 2026
Armani passed away on September 4, aged 91, due to liver failure.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
2 July 2026
But after her father passed away in 1988, her career plans changed course.
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Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
1 July 2026
Last year, their older sister Maria Esther passed away from cancer aged 64.
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Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
Bryan Marchment wore number 27 with the Sharks, and Mason, after Bryan passed away, wore his dad’s number during his three seasons with the Dallas Stars and with the Seattle Kraken this past season.
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Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
1 July 2026
All the cast members have passed away by now, but Entertainment Weekly is taking a look at where their careers took them after the conclusion of Sanford and Son.
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Will Harris,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 June 2026
Honoring the way Schultz’s weaving developed through intergenerational mentorship and knowledge transfer, the retrospective contains works by four generations of weavers in her family, including her mother, Martha Gorman Schultz, who passed away last year at the age of 93.
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Lua Vollaard,
ARTnews.com,
24 June 2026
Verb
Sadly, that latter group earns a new radio hit in America at nearly the same time that frontman and co-founding member Victor Willis passed away.
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Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2026
Sarah finally passed away in 1998, six months after her son Lloyd’s death.
—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
3 July 2026
Armani passed away on September 4, aged 91, due to liver failure.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
2 July 2026
But after her father passed away in 1988, her career plans changed course.
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Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
1 July 2026
Last year, their older sister Maria Esther passed away from cancer aged 64.
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Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
Bryan Marchment wore number 27 with the Sharks, and Mason, after Bryan passed away, wore his dad’s number during his three seasons with the Dallas Stars and with the Seattle Kraken this past season.
—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
1 July 2026
All the cast members have passed away by now, but Entertainment Weekly is taking a look at where their careers took them after the conclusion of Sanford and Son.
—
Will Harris,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 June 2026
Honoring the way Schultz’s weaving developed through intergenerational mentorship and knowledge transfer, the retrospective contains works by four generations of weavers in her family, including her mother, Martha Gorman Schultz, who passed away last year at the age of 93.
—
Lua Vollaard,
ARTnews.com,
24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for passed away
Adjective
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Suddenly, photos, videos, or important documents are just… gone.
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Room by room, the author takes us through the house, now long gone.
Verb
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When Khomeini died in 1989, Khamenei became his successor within a matter of weeks.
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At least 31 children died in hot cars in 2025, according to the National Safety Council and nine have died this year.
Adjective
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The bell’s pyramidal face is decorated with depictions of deceased kings and queens, and its toll was believed to invoke ancestral spirits.
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Both of his parents are deceased, and his grandmother was caring for his younger brother, who was suffering from a severe leg injury.
Verb
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That the forest below has not been felled but has swelled, along with its creatures, is hugely the work of Dharana’s owners, the de Souza family.
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The most dangerous situation appeared to be on Barrington Avenue, west of East Dundee Village Hall, where a light, a utility pole and part of a parkway tree were felled by strong winds, leaving power lines dangling across the road.
Adjective
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Dozens of firefighters lined the street in a solemn salute to their fallen colleagues.
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Jackass Forever was dedicated to Dunn and concluded with a moving tribute to their fallen comrade.
Verb
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Known as the Heaven’s 27 Camp Safety Act — named for the 25 girls and two teenage counselors who perished at Mystic last year — it was signed into law in Texas in September.
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The pallor of mortality is a reminder, for some, of the heat wave in the summer of 2003, when nearly fifteen thousand people perished in France.
Adjective
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Syria has been without a parliament since the December 2024 offensive by insurgents led by al-Sharaa’s now defunct Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which ended the Assad family’s five-decade dynasty.
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Prosecutors in 2017 charged him with six counts of embezzlement, grand theft, money laundering and misappropriation of public funds in connection with his time as CEO of the now-defunct Stockton Boys and Girls Club.
Verb
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Vegas played much of the night without center William Karlsson, who was being checked out on the bench for an apparent upper-body injury.
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Mac Jones did not throw Wednesday because of a sore shoulder that checked out clean and should be ready for training camp, which is expected to open July 25 or 26.
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