Anybody using roads around the UK is asked to take note of how many hedgehogs they see - dead or alive - on stretches of single carriageway roads, on journeys of 20 miles or more.

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Search and rescue efforts have evolved into search and recovery efforts, because officials don't expect to find any more victims in the wreckage -- alive or dead.

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Alcatel-Lucent would be worth more dead than alive.

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The city's artistic and literary history, including the Beats and the Dead, feels very much alive in the big chain-resistant bookstore and cafe culture.

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The uncanny valley effect could have to do with uncertainty about whether a robotic character is truly alive or dead, and even play into our deep-seated fears of death.

CNN: Why zombies, robots, clowns freak us out

There's an unpublicized view among foreign-car lobbyists that General Motors is much scarier dead or bankrupt than alive.

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Once limited largely to "dead or alive" offers for suspected killers on the lam, rewards are now routinely announced for far-lesser crimes as well, including theft, vandalism and animal mutilation.

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