a natural death
noun
: death caused by illness or old age
She survived the plane crash and many years later died a natural death.
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Nearly all were ruled accidental deaths aside from one ruled undetermined in Palm Beach County and one ruled a natural death.
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Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
Her cause of death was officially listed as a natural death attributed to lobar pneumonia.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Unwanted or offensive speech, administrators hope, will die a natural death.
—TIME, 19 Dec. 2023
Meng draws on data from 46 countries in Africa to show that, counterintuitively, authoritarian regimes in which the ruler’s power is constrained by institutions in fact last longer and that those rulers are more likely to die a natural death (rather than at the hands of a political rival).
—Anne Meng, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
Golan was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment on Oct. 18 of last year, in what the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office ruled was a natural death caused by a brain bleed.
—Julianne McShane, NBC news, 9 June 2023
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Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
Her cause of death was officially listed as a natural death attributed to lobar pneumonia.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Unwanted or offensive speech, administrators hope, will die a natural death.
—TIME, 19 Dec. 2023
Meng draws on data from 46 countries in Africa to show that, counterintuitively, authoritarian regimes in which the ruler’s power is constrained by institutions in fact last longer and that those rulers are more likely to die a natural death (rather than at the hands of a political rival).
—Anne Meng, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
Golan was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment on Oct. 18 of last year, in what the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office ruled was a natural death caused by a brain bleed.
—Julianne McShane, NBC news, 9 June 2023
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“A natural death.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20natural%20death. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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