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‘Men can be dead.’

[⟨det (plur man.n)⟩ dead.a]

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In Wikipedia:

The old men are all dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I continued holding onto his arm.. while pondering if these men were dead or alive.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In the morning, all the men on the raft are dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Four men are dead. ’
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In Wikipedia:

DI Alex Drake recognises his statements contrasting his victims’ external beauty with their inner impurity as being the essense of Matthew 23:27 – 28, “You are like whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead men’s bones and all sorts of impurities.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If I am correct about this photograph, all these men, with the exception of my father, are dead – killed in action.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The men who laboured alone and unloved in that bleak place are now long dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The old men are all dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The latter came by appointment at 2:30 PM Dec. 10 and found the men dead lying in a reposeful altitude on the outside of the bed with their clothes on.”
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In Wikipedia:

The La Grange expedition left Fremantle in February 1865, and on 3 April it found the missing men dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This battlefield’s littered with debris Nation’s not as big as it used to be. 600,000 men are dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We also don’t find ourselves longing for the’ ‘perfect’’ man, we like our flaws and we like the fact that our men (whether it be fictional guys or real guys) aren’t dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In late January and February, protests erupted in the Kashmir Valley following the alleged killing of five innocent Kashmiris in staged gunbattles by Indian forces, who then passed off the dead men as militants.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Why recap these horror stories of dead young men who seemed to have the world at their fingertips?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But some men are so dead theycan *n’t even die.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And slyly he traileth along the ground, And his leaves he gently waves, As he joyously hugs and crawleth round The rich mould of dead men’s graves.
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In Wikipedia:

Before the 1793 campaigns, he had taken part in a horse – stealing raid against the Holston River settlements that left two men dead; the subsequent pursuit of his band ended at Coyatee near the mouth of the Little Tennessee River and the killings of a number of leading Cherokee and wounding of several others, including Hanging Maw, the chief headman of the Overhill Towns by the party sent in pursuit.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

’ ’ one of the dead men exclaimed, and turned to Allah.
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In the British National Corpus:

We are dead men, Vicomte de Chagny, dead men!”
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Queried on 2013-05-18.