decapitator

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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
  • Ditto Hugh Jackman’s unerring performance — perhaps his finest dramatic work yet — as a savage, unfeeling thug and unrepentant murderer and thief.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • The curse of season two is why Big Little Lies became a boring courtroom drama, True Detective became a running joke, and Landry became a murderer.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Unfortunately, Daemon’s hired assassins killed Aegon’s young son Jaehaerys instead so any real possibility for a family reconciliation was lost.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fundraiser notes that Erin Joanis, the executor of the estate, will oversee the funds on behalf of the siblings.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Episode Eight really turns the trope of a woman being pursued by a masked killer on its head.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • Heuermann caved as evidence grew overwhelming, Brown says While the public saw the serial killer from afar, Brown had a rare perspective, having spent countless hours with Heuermann after being assigned to the case on day one.
    Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 18 June 2026
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“Decapitator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decapitator. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.

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