1
as in enforced
to carry out effectively
the agency charged with executing the nation's drug laws
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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
It’s all perfectly executed—just don’t expect taverna prices.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Mexico's Attorney General's Office, known as the FGR, announced the discovery Saturday following a search warrant executed at a property in the Nueva Tijuana neighborhood of Tijuana, Baja California.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
The city also declined The Star’s open records request for information related to the projections, citing state law that seals negotiated contracts until they are executed.
—Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
The 75-minute docudrama is inspired by the protests that swept Tehran in January, highlighting five Iranians who meet in a Tehran alley before they’re executed, all witnessed from a window by Amir, a 10-year-old boy with cerebral palsy.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 2 June 2026
What Chicago needs now is for those instincts to be executed with the speed and seriousness this moment demands.
—Desmon Yancy, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, June 2, for the 1996 murder of 5-month-old Garbrielle Hanshaw.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 1 June 2026
In March, Iran executed three men who were accused of killing police officers during the protests, including Saleh Mohammadi, a young member of Iran's national wrestling team.
—CBS News, 26 May 2026
The young Lithuanian guard executed pick-and-roll after pick-and-roll with efficiency.
—Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Mexico's Attorney General's Office, known as the FGR, announced the discovery Saturday following a search warrant executed at a property in the Nueva Tijuana neighborhood of Tijuana, Baja California.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
The city also declined The Star’s open records request for information related to the projections, citing state law that seals negotiated contracts until they are executed.
—Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
The 75-minute docudrama is inspired by the protests that swept Tehran in January, highlighting five Iranians who meet in a Tehran alley before they’re executed, all witnessed from a window by Amir, a 10-year-old boy with cerebral palsy.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 2 June 2026
What Chicago needs now is for those instincts to be executed with the speed and seriousness this moment demands.
—Desmon Yancy, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, June 2, for the 1996 murder of 5-month-old Garbrielle Hanshaw.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 1 June 2026
In March, Iran executed three men who were accused of killing police officers during the protests, including Saleh Mohammadi, a young member of Iran's national wrestling team.
—CBS News, 26 May 2026
The young Lithuanian guard executed pick-and-roll after pick-and-roll with efficiency.
—Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for executed
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Unless equitable standards are created and enforced, groups historically excluded will continue to be excluded.—
Vanessa Grubbs,
STAT,
1 June 2026
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That includes standardizing how infrastructure is defined, reducing variation across environments and ensuring that policies are enforced as part of how systems operate rather than as an afterthought.—
Matthew Sweeney,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Upon his return to Pittsburgh, Negri studied musical composition at Carnegie Mellon University and performed extensively in the local music scene, which included playing with pianist Johnny Costa on the CBS TV station KDKA.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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Makeup categories, including lip products, cushions and foundations, followed, while hair care, body care, beauty accessories and wellness products also performed strongly.—
Ryma Chikhoune,
Footwear News,
2 June 2026
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In 1979, Pamela’s father, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was assassinated by the IRA when a bomb exploded aboard his fishing boat.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
5 June 2026
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Jordan was later elected to the Missouri House of Representatives before being assassinated and killed outside the Green Duck in 1970.—
J.M. Banks
June 1,
Kansas City Star,
1 June 2026
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City Manager Mark Dunning said the budgets City Council members voted to advance Tuesday night, which would go into effect July 1, would not cut current city employees but would maintain a hiring freeze the city implemented last month on around 30 open positions across a range of departments.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2026
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With the new mid-weight model, Google has implemented a streamlined embedding module for vision, featuring single-matrix multiplication and positional embedding, which allows the data to pass to the LLM with proper spatial awareness.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 June 2026
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It’s been accomplished six times, and UCLA is responsible for four.—
Tim Willert,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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Ruben has accomplished his goal to kill Niall and regain his sense of power.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
29 May 2026
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If someone was caught, and murdered, scraps of their body were circulated as souvenirs and passed down through generations of white families as heirlooms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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Austrians believe he was murdered for refusing to join the German team.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 June 2026
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Rules must be enforced, budgets must be balanced, and duties need to be fulfilled.—
Niurys Robaina,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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Blackstone fulfilled 100% of those requests by raising its quarterly cap and using employee capital to cover the remaining amount.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
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Three people were killed and 20 more people were attacked by bears across at least nine prefectures between April and June 2, according to public broadcaster NHK.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
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Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says that he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals court has ruled.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
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“Executed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/executed. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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