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Diced


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dice

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (2) Now, the Balkans are once again dicing with crisis.
  • (3) We had a review in October, where the executive team headed up to Dice to see the latest on both of those games.
  • (4) The film's most chilling image, revealed later on in flashback, is of the tiny Li'l Dice returning to the motel alone and gleefully slaying everyone inside.
  • (5) The isolate of Treponema hyodysenteriae in the diced colon which was used to expose the swine was resistant to sodium arsanilate.
  • (6) No-one can deny that unions now have the dice loaded against them.
  • (7) He performed his debut show , Dicing with Dr Death, as part of the Edinburgh fringe comedy festival, described in its synopsis as “a rip-roaring ride through his 20 years working with life’s one certainty: death”.
  • (8) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
  • (9) There are no bonuses in the shape of a couple of extra throws of the dice.
  • (10) On Sunday, in a snap rerun of the June polls predicted to be a turning point for the nation, he rolled the dice of history, taking the riskiest gamble of his political life.
  • (11) the last throw of the dice for Ed [Richards of Ofcom] to block the deal He ... .
  • (12) Previous studies have shown that microinjected ribonuclease A is degraded to single amino acids entirely within lysosomes (McElligott, M. A., Miao, P., and Dice, J. F. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (13) Now that Obama has thrown the dice and joined the fray in Syria, Britain will feel increasing pressure to do more to help.
  • (14) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.
  • (15) For the former experiments diced explants of the human fetal pancreas were grafted beneath the renal capsule of nude mice 3 weeks before streptozotocin was administered to make the animals diabetic.
  • (16) They sliced and diced them until no one had a clue what was going on," says Wilson.
  • (17) Implanted diced neonatal pancreas in three chambers removed after 6 weeks secreted glucagon, insulin, and pancreatic polypeptide in vitro.
  • (18) It referred to betting one's entire fortune on one throw of the dice [this, it transpires, being a game called 'hazard', more commonly known as craps].
  • (19) But in an echo of what happened last year in the runup to the general election, prime minister David Cameron has rolled the dice first – privately ruling out appearing in a debate, in a story that appeared in The Sun on Monday.
  • (20) They don't seem to understand that she was their final throw of the dice, and that in the end they lost.

Dicey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are to be found in the 1689 bill of rights, in Blackstone, and in the work of more recent jurists such as AV Dicey.
  • (2) According to a PBS Frontline documentary last week, even the NSA’s top attorneys found the warrantless domestic surveillance regimen a dicey legal call, although they ultimately approved it.
  • (3) Sustainably speaking, taking a cruise is a pretty dicey proposition.
  • (4) Environmentally speaking, however, ocean travel can be a dicey proposition: every year, the industry consumes millions of tons of fuel and produces almost a billion tons of sewage.
  • (5) The dynamics of speaking at a convention are a little dicey.” Trump to meet with NRA over barring guns for those on terrorism watch lists Read more The NRA’s big campaign blitz has been partly fueled by an aggressive fundraising operation which in recent years has targeted mega-donors.
  • (6) The proposed move would leave the current company’s most valuable joint ventures in a separate holding company and split them from Yahoo’s dicey advertising businesses.
  • (7) Lean times in store for new Sainsbury's boss So, how dicey is the hospital pass about to be received by Mike Coupe, the Sainsbury's commercial director who will succeed Justin King as chief executive next month?
  • (8) Journalists who covered war and conflict over the past few decades can recall instances in which they talked their way out of dicey situations by arguing that if militants killed or kidnapped them there would be no one to tell their story.
  • (9) Three points from a dicey assignment at Southampton means a first title in 24 years is a fantasy with an increasing chance of becoming reality.
  • (10) Alan Greenspan has seen more than a few dicey days on global markets in his time.
  • (11) He had some very dicey moments, including a very close shave in Lebanon in 1983 when a knife was held to his throat, and resolved to find a less traumatic career before it was too late ("There are very few happy, old news cameramen").
  • (12) In contrast, the great jurist AV Dicey (1835-1922) had proposed that such votes were, in essence, conservative devices that enabled the voters to restrain the follies of the political class.
  • (13) When the producers of the Harry Potter franchise split Deathly Hallows down the middle in 2010 (that's 3.5 horcruxes a film, stats fans) it still felt like a dicey manoeuvre.
  • (14) Fear-mongers might say the neighbourhood is dicey, but Lavapiés is really a lively slice of authentic Madrid.
  • (15) But the rule of law is what Conservatives in particular were brought up to believe in: a bit of the imperial history ( Magna Carta , Blackstone , Dicey , etc) for which they display such enthusiasm.
  • (16) Prosecutors said DuPont was unwilling to sell its method to China, so it was stolen and sent to a company called Pangang Group Co Ltd, according to testimony during the diplomatically dicey proceedings.
  • (17) "It all looked rather dicey before it came out," he recalls.
  • (18) The referendum is the people’s veto,” Dicey declared.
  • (19) It’s been billed as a bit of a return to form for the actor, who has made some dicey choices of late, from The Expendables 3 and Paranoia to Cowboys & Aliens – but it still doesn’t match his all-time greatest performances.
  • (20) Pass that level and, climate scientists tell us, things get dicey: soils dry out, damaging food production.

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