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Discover LudwigThe phrase "truly dead" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to emphasize that someone or something is definitively, genuinely, or completely dead. It can also be used metaphorically to describe something that is no longer relevant or functioning. Example: The patient had no pulse and was truly dead. Example: After years of neglect, the old building was truly dead, beyond repair. Example: The company's outdated business model was truly dead and in need of a major overhaul.
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And is Quilan's missus really, truly dead?
Few believe the pipeline is truly dead.
Others suspect the Microsoft deal is truly dead, however.
The age of deference is well and truly dead.
Cancer's "relapse" thus implies a belief that the disease was once truly dead.
A doctor can't always determine whether the brain is truly dead.
If she is truly dead in that photo...I can't... and for speaking up?
(Orthodox Jewish and other theologians continue to debate whether a brain-dead person is truly dead).
No one is ever truly dead, she says, when we go on loving them.
Finally, in 1971, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller declared the project truly dead.
Until the case for separation is truly dead and buried Scottish Labour can never fully recover.
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