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  • Service for the secrecy surrounding their activities, SEALS are famous for their death-defying underwater missions; they used false names and worked alone or in small groups.

    Mike Grout 2010

  • Our mutual confidence in your ability to pull off this death-defying stunt may be misplaced.

    Towards a Lexicon of Folly: Factard Hal Duncan 2010

  • I wish for another death-defying ride in the yellow taxi that fought the traffic as a bullfighter fights the bull.

    Wishes Instead of Resolutions 2009

  • But the automatic pistol in his belt with its rattling, quick - dealing death, and the automatic, death-defying spirit in the man himself, made them refrain and buckle down to the task of hauling him to safety through the storm.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • He seems to enjoy death-defying fun with his sister more than anything else in the whole world.

    » Partners in Crime Strocel.com 2009

  • This new season (2008-9) of 16 episodes follows Westen as he takes on all new death-defying assignments in hopes of getting closer to his new employers, the people that were possibly responsible for his ousting.

    Five Best Movies Released On DVD This Week | myFiveBest 2009

  • After 10 weeks of death-defying and sometimes ridiculous acts, America's Got Talent has named its Season 6 winner.

    The Winner of America's Got Talent Is... 2011

  • Like the first "Hangover" film, which was set in Las Vegas, the sequel follows protagonists Stu, Phil and Alan as they try to piece together what happened after a crazy night of booze, drugs and death-defying danger the day before a wedding—this time, Stu's.

    One Night in Bangkok Can Lead to Quite a 'Hangover' for Thailand James Hookway 2011

  • Well, I wanted to. — but the man-crush fawning goes sour when he realizes the droll, debonair and death-defying Burt is dating his dragon-queen mother. ...

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2012

  • I wish for another death-defying ride in the yellow taxi that fought the traffic as a bullfighter fights the bull.

    Wishes Instead of Resolutions 2009

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