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deathsman

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Definition of deathsman

as in executioner

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But Bruce Wayne isn’t a boy anymore, and Batman can’t operate as a one-man judge, jury, and executioner.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2026
The kingdom remains one of the world’s top executioners behind China and Iran.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of executioner

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Pat Houston, Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law, former manager, and now the executor of her estate, confirmed to Vanity Fair that the lack of a Cinderella album was a great heartbreak of Houston’s career.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
That longer period can be helpful when no beneficiary is designated for the stock options and a personal representative/executor needs to be appointed during the probate process.

— Bruce Brumberg, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of executor

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The former cop also claimed to have found a hangman’s noose under Epstein’s mattress.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
Even-handed, compassionate, and as suffocatingly tense as a hangman's noose, Munich is Spielberg's most underrated film.

— Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026

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Created by Tessa Coates, Ride or Die is a spy action comedy about an assassin, Judith (Waddingham) whose latest case inadvertently involves her best friend of more than 20 years, Debbie (Spencer), a politician’s wife.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
This show loves nothing more this season than to introduce a potential assassin and promptly thwart his plan via blade to the head or neck.

— Brian Grubb, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of assassin

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Two other men, subjects of excellent Holbein drawings in the show, would keep appointments with the headsman.

— Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Once upon a time, the queen could have sent rebels to the Tower and the headsman’s block, even relatives—especially relatives.

— Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021

Definition of headsman

Noun

Although gang ties to Tupac’s killing had been suspected from the beginning, the search for the killer was long hampered by the refusal of potential eyewitnesses to testify.

— Andy Rose, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Set in the present, the movie tells the story of Kris (Hannah Einbinder), a young filmmaker who sets out to reboot an old slasher flick, Camp Miasma, haunted by a mysterious, helmeted killer named Little Death.

— Alex Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Aug. 2026

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