Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathsman
Noun
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Figures are unavailable for China, which keeps most executions secret but is widely believed to be the world’s leading executioner.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
2 Jan. 2026 -
When Netflix chooses to cover a case, its version may be the only one that survives in a court of public opinion where the service is judge, jury, and executioner.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
5 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The real horror is that the murderers are so thoroughly human.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Rubio, at fifty-four, is the policy’s unlikely executor.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Panish Shea & Boyle LLP of Los Angeles filed the lawsuit against Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn in their capacities as executors of the estate of Jeffrey Epstein and individual Ghislaine Maxwell.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
23 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The classic effigy comes with a free hangman’s noose or lasso.—
Jack Handey,
New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2025
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Eleven white men stood on the gallows with him—the hangman, the trigger-puller, officers of the law, the priest.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Though detectives conclude that assassin cult members Ash (Jon Pointing) and Dee Dee (Maeve Courtier-Lilley) were the ones who killed Aaron, Paige revealed that the real killer was Ingrid.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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Maduro is being held in the same federal jail in Brooklyn as accused assassin Luigi Mangione.—
Michael Ruiz , Maria Paronich , Brendan McDonald,
FOXNews.com,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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Even if your reality is the headsman’s block!—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2021
Noun
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Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery star as employees of a self-storage facility on top of a former military base, from whence a killer fungus emerges one night.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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That 15-0 third quarter run was a killer.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Deathsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathsman. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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