Be alive
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both terms in one sentence
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Earlier, a delirious Burns suggested that the snowmen they had made (and given their clothes to) to stave off cabin fever might be alive and try to kill them.
Source: Snowlems aka: Snowlem -
If you die, respawn and return to the quest giver to try again, he asks how the hell you can be alive again.
Source: Video Game / Age of Conan -
Tragic Mistake: If only Madoka hadn't decided to try and help Homura in Oriko Magica, getting herself killed by Oriko in the process, she'd still be alive and Homura wouldn't have gone back in time.
Source: Manga / Puella Magi Oriko Magica
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