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been dying for
verb
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. or the sciences.
Exact(56)
But she had been dying for a while".
SMALL banks have been dying for 20 years.
Theater is a dead art -- it's been dying for years.
And people have been dying for a local movie theater.
"I've been dying for this to be over for the last year," he said.
Children have been dying for lack of vitamin A, iron and zinc for thousands of generations.
My hubby and I have been dying for this place to open.
"Obviously, they've been dying for a winner for a long time," he said.
Americans have been dying for months in Iraq, attacked by an enemy whose nature remains murky.
Black people have been dying for this kind of attention for years.
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But the iPhone… the smartphone millions of Verizon Wireless subscribers have been dying for… is a 3G device.
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