1
as in enforced
to carry out effectively
the agency charged with executing the nation's drug laws
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2
as in performed
to carry through (as a process) to completion
when you execute this dance step, try to keep your arms a little higher
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as in assassinated
to put to death deliberately
during the war those convicted of desertion were summarily executed
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Recent Examples of executed
Invoices are processed through email and digital systems, and payments are executed across interconnected platforms.
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Laurent Charpentier,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
According to the Pasadena Police Department, a search warrant was executed on what appeared to be a marijuana dispensary at 6316 Whittier Boulevard in the City of Los Angeles, where fireworks allegedly intended for distribution were found.
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Austin Turner,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Those deals, however, were executed by Johnson’s predecessors.
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Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
In January 2024, Cal Coast simultaneously executed a letter of intent to sell the property to Century Communities of California for $68 million and submitted its site plan to remodel the critical golf course element in January 2025, according to city documents.
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Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
23 June 2026
In his view, this limits the ability to evaluate intermodal as a mature logistics solution capable of delivering predictable outcomes when properly executed.
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Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
Lawyers there determined that Saldaño had an IQ of 74, within the range that could qualify him for not being executed.
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Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
22 June 2026
Then there is the strategy, executed without the million-dollar budget that comes with studio backing.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 June 2026
The expiration date of the new contract is 27 years after the first contract between the two entities was executed in 2004, soon after the city’s incorporation.
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Camryn Dadey,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2026
Laurent Charpentier,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
According to the Pasadena Police Department, a search warrant was executed on what appeared to be a marijuana dispensary at 6316 Whittier Boulevard in the City of Los Angeles, where fireworks allegedly intended for distribution were found.
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Austin Turner,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Those deals, however, were executed by Johnson’s predecessors.
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Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
In January 2024, Cal Coast simultaneously executed a letter of intent to sell the property to Century Communities of California for $68 million and submitted its site plan to remodel the critical golf course element in January 2025, according to city documents.
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Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
23 June 2026
In his view, this limits the ability to evaluate intermodal as a mature logistics solution capable of delivering predictable outcomes when properly executed.
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Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
Lawyers there determined that Saldaño had an IQ of 74, within the range that could qualify him for not being executed.
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Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
22 June 2026
Then there is the strategy, executed without the million-dollar budget that comes with studio backing.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 June 2026
The expiration date of the new contract is 27 years after the first contract between the two entities was executed in 2004, soon after the city’s incorporation.
—
Camryn Dadey,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for executed
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The post-game timeline is the same that was enforced after Iran's games against New Zealand and Belgium, a tight travel schedule that members of the Iranian team and their coach have blasted as unfair treatment.
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While Sacramento police had not enforced the ban for years, the repeal of the 1988 ordinance and the signs along Franklin Boulevard and Broadway was a milestone.
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Among the hundreds of surgeries performed over three decades by ElAttrache, his patients include the four 2024 MLB most valuable player and Cy Young Award winners — Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal.
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The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery reports that the average number of hair restoration surgeries performed per member in the past year is 178.
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His father, Manuel Cepeda, was a prominent figure in the Colombian Communist Party, and was assassinated in 1994 during a particularly bloody era in Colombia's internal conflict.
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Last year, on September 10th, Kirk was assassinated in the midst of a debate, in front of some three thousand people at Utah Valley University.
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His invention hasn't been implemented at any crosswalks yet, but Jung said his next step is to pilot SmartBlink with local governments in various communities.
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The unit at Lackland has implemented mitigation measures, is monitoring trainees who may have been exposed and is treating symptomatic trainees with antiviral medications such as Tamiflu, an Air Force spokesperson told CBS News last week.
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Everything great in business is accomplished by teams, and teams require focus and trust.
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Even the special effects emerge as less than spectacular — especially since Jeannot Szwarc’s plodding direction affords ample time for one to sit there and figure out just how they were accomplished.
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Thirty years after she was murdered, Aimee Willard is still honoring her legacy with a garden of sunflowers in Delaware County.
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Later on, Jaehaerys II is murdered in the episode’s climax.
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Broos’s side takes on Canada in Los Angeles today after advancing from the group stage with a surprise 1-0 victory over South Korea, and the Belgian said reaching the knockout rounds had fulfilled the team’s initial objective.
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Sure enough, their destiny was fulfilled the following morning.
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Six people were on board the plane, including one person who was killed in the incident, police said.
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Days before the five-year anniversary of the 2021 building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, the federal government has published findings that determined the structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium started failing about three weeks before the catastrophe.
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