deathsman

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Noun
  • In 2003 the United States topples Hussein and delivers him to his executioners.
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • Under the method, executioners strap an inmate to a gurney with chest and shoulder harnesses and attach a mask to his face.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • There can be legitimate debate on immigration, but Trump veers into sinister areas of xenophobia of invading rapists and murderers.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026
  • It was censored in France, and later linked to a real-life murderer.
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • During probate, the estate's executor identifies assets, notifies creditors, pays valid claims and distributes any remaining property to heirs.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • The digital replication right does not expire at a person’s death, and can be transferred and licensed by heirs, executors and others.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • As a pirate assassin and post-apocalyptic warrior, Krem of the Yellow Hills connects with Aries.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • The report’s key finding was that an odd, angry, 24-year-old assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had acted alone, for reasons nobody could quite figure out.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Even if your reality is the headsman’s block!
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Inside, the lobby sets a welcoming, midcentury tone with killer tunes, Swedish kili armchairs, beachy lifestyle coffee table books, and 1970s stoneware lighting.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2026
  • Scores of protesters appeared in front of the Supreme Court in late April to support people who say they were harmed by the weed killer and other chemicals, in allegiance with the Make America Healthy Again movement.
    Carrie Johnson, NPR, 25 June 2026
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“Deathsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathsman. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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