a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games
she anxiously rolled the dice, hoping to win the jackpot
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Noun
There is a huge roll of the dice here.—NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026 This team sandwiches seaweed sheets and rice paste into five micro-thin layers; the next steps involve dehydrating, resting, frying and shaping the end result into small cylinders filled with a tiny dice of tuna, or maybe cod milt in the winter.—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
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The hosts were rolled, sliced, diced, chewed up and spit back out again.—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025 There’s also an impressive discount on the top-selling Fullstar vegetable chopper that can dice produce any which way without any elbow grease on your end, as well as this six-piece champagne flute set that’s primed for New Year’s Eve festivities.—Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dice
Police also confirm in court papers that additional bones and eight corpses were discovered in a storage locker.
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9 Jan. 2026
Torney was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer with recurring tumors that eat away at bone marrow, damaging bones and the immune system.