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decapitated

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past tense of decapitate

as in headed

to cut off the head of a particularly gruesome series of murders in which the victims were decapitated

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Like at Brentford’s Gtech Stadium, Spurs failed to win with the first contact from a deep corner, allowing the ball to be headed across their penalty area to an unmarked Yoane Wissa, who acrobatically converted past Antonin Kinsky.

— Elias Burke, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
But Chinese leader Xi Jinping clearly sees history headed in that direction.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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