Whataboutism seemed to have died a natural death at the end of the cold war.

ECONOMIST: Come again, Comrade?

Tastes are changing too: Twinkie the Kid might have been made from petroleum byproducts and artificial ingredients, but he died a natural death.

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They spoke little and only occasionally, in short sentences that never became conversation or dialogue, any hint of which died a natural death, interrupted by the attention that the woman was giving to her body, in which she was utterly absorbed, and by the indirect attention that the man, too, was giving to her body, through his camera lens.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping