Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decapitator
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The painting, measuring six feet in width and featuring as its central subject a midcentury executioner’s chair, is estimated around $30 million.—
Angelica Villa for ARTNews,
Robb Report,
11 Apr. 2025 -
Jane, who may have been as young as 16, is shown blindfolded as an executioner with an axe waits to behead her.—
Pan Pylas,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2025
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Torque is described as a true monster, a talented and elusive hijacker and murderer who faked his own death a decade prior.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
17 May 2025
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Eight of the escapees, including a murderer and a man charged with murder, remain on the lam after the breakout, which the sheriff says may have been aided by members within her department.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2025
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Sandra Oh, the daughter of South Korean immigrant parents, follows British agent Eve Polastri charged with catching the elusive and ruthless assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer).—
Lesley O'Toole,
Variety,
9 May 2025
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The film premieres June 6, and Keanu Reeves will be showing up to lock horns with the titular assassin.—
Michileen Martin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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Several other leading figures of the period ended their days on the executioner’s block, including the unhappy Comte de Chalais, whose headsman bungled the job and ended up frantically chopping away at his screaming victim with a small hatchet.—
David A. Bell,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Mar. 2012
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Even if your reality is the headsman’s block!—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2021
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But since taking office, the president has been tightening up his definition of freedom like a hangman’s noose.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Our staff plays hangman to pass some time.—
R29 Team,
refinery29.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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The platform walks people through everything from naming an executor to designating pet guardians, organizing funeral plans, and even uploading photos of valuables.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 May 2025
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Often the oddity comes from the chilling drone of bureaucracy: the executor’s compassionate thicket of legal reasoning, an airline representative’s denial of Carrie’s quest for a bereavement discount, the dollars and cents of Dr. J’s cremation (for which Carrie is retroactively billed).—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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Creativity will need to improve in midfield, certainly in terms of the ability to play that killer pass.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
9 May 2025
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While some may voice concerns over AI being a motivation killer, Gates argues the opposite.—
Jennifer Earl,
CBS News,
9 May 2025
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“Decapitator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decapitator. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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