grim reaper
noun
variants
often Grim Reaper
: death especially when personified as a man or skeleton with a scythe
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Later, the look became incorporated in folktales as the attire of grim reapers.
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Claire Wang, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
The series starred Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers in Seattle and ran for two seasons.
—Leia Mendoza, Variety, 17 Sep. 2025
After morphing into a giant monster in The Faculty, Harris starred on Bryan Fuller's Showtime dramedy about grim reapers, Dead Like Me, taking over for Rebecca Gayheart.
—Keith Langston, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Once known as the Dueling Grounds Race Course as men used this land to settle disputes of major proportion in the late 18th and early 19th century, Kentucky Downs has at times wrestled with the grim reaper.
—Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Claire Wang, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
The series starred Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers in Seattle and ran for two seasons.
—Leia Mendoza, Variety, 17 Sep. 2025
After morphing into a giant monster in The Faculty, Harris starred on Bryan Fuller's Showtime dramedy about grim reapers, Dead Like Me, taking over for Rebecca Gayheart.
—Keith Langston, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Once known as the Dueling Grounds Race Course as men used this land to settle disputes of major proportion in the late 18th and early 19th century, Kentucky Downs has at times wrestled with the grim reaper.
—Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Grim reaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grim%20reaper. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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