dead man
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She won the 1996 Best Actress Oscar for "Dead Man Walking", where she played a nun who supports a man sentenced to death.
From Barron's
Then again, it’s hard to think straight when talking to a dead man.
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He closed his eyes and did the dead man’s float, to rest.
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Twice he did the dead man’s float, to rest, and both times he had to force himself to start swimming again.
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Netflix got a big boost in the quarter from the final season of its hit series “Stranger Things,” among other popular shows, documentaries and movies, including Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.”
From Los Angeles Times
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