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When General Hospital sent Spencer Cassadine to a watery grave in January 2024, it was expected that Nicholas Alexander Chavez would return to the role once he was done shooting Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
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Charlie Mason, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2024
The rocket’s upper stage was then expected to intentionally dive back toward Earth to and sink to a watery grave in the ocean near Point Nemo — a spot in the Pacific Ocean farther from land than any place on Earth.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 9 July 2024
An island green encircled by a vast lake on all sides, but for a thin land bridge, the dreams of countless golfers fighting to clinch the PGA Tour’s flagship event – The Players Championship – have sunk into a watery grave alongside their ball.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
And how will companies monitor the effects of sending tons of seaweed to a watery grave?
—Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
Pathos also deepens scenes involving incidental characters — an old woman mourning the loss of her husband; ad hoc pallbearers descending the aisle of the submerged fuselage, relinquishing the dead to a watery grave.
—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
Nothing was to be saved from this test flight, with the spacecraft — if all had gone well — aiming for a watery grave in the Pacific near Hawaii.
—Marcia Dunn, ajc, 20 Apr. 2023
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Charlie Mason, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2024
The rocket’s upper stage was then expected to intentionally dive back toward Earth to and sink to a watery grave in the ocean near Point Nemo — a spot in the Pacific Ocean farther from land than any place on Earth.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 9 July 2024
An island green encircled by a vast lake on all sides, but for a thin land bridge, the dreams of countless golfers fighting to clinch the PGA Tour’s flagship event – The Players Championship – have sunk into a watery grave alongside their ball.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
And how will companies monitor the effects of sending tons of seaweed to a watery grave?
—Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
Pathos also deepens scenes involving incidental characters — an old woman mourning the loss of her husband; ad hoc pallbearers descending the aisle of the submerged fuselage, relinquishing the dead to a watery grave.
—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
Nothing was to be saved from this test flight, with the spacecraft — if all had gone well — aiming for a watery grave in the Pacific near Hawaii.
—Marcia Dunn, ajc, 20 Apr. 2023
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“A watery grave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20watery%20grave. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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