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Recent Examples of executioner
Episode 3 ended with Ron, Eric Nam, Kristen Kish, and Caroline Stanbury all tied to trees and hilariously pleading for their lives while the Traitors and a masked executioner all just kind of stood there awkwardly.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
Figures are unavailable for China, which keeps most executions secret but is widely believed to be the world’s leading executioner.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 2 Jan. 2026
When Netflix chooses to cover a case, its version may be the only one that survives in a court of public opinion where the service is judge, jury, and executioner.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
Under South Carolina's protocol, Bryant's executioners will place a hood over his head and strap him to a chair.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
Figures are unavailable for China, which keeps most executions secret but is widely believed to be the world’s leading executioner.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 2 Jan. 2026
When Netflix chooses to cover a case, its version may be the only one that survives in a court of public opinion where the service is judge, jury, and executioner.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
Under South Carolina's protocol, Bryant's executioners will place a hood over his head and strap him to a chair.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for executioner
Noun
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The masked murderer attempted to kill Sidney (Neve Campbell) in a bathroom in the original 1996 Scream, and succeeded in offing Phil (Omar Epps) in a movie theater bathroom stall in the 1997 sequel.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Feb. 2026
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In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Statham stars as a retired assassin living off the coast of Scotland who has to get back to work while trying to stop the agency that used to pay him and protecting a young girl named Jessie (Bodhi Rae Breathnach).—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2026
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Watching General Pinochet’s man on the spot, the American assassin Michael Vernon Townley, murder some of Chile’s finest leaders shows that the allure of espionage was largely a fiction, a cinematic fabrication.—
Alfred McCoy,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Executioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/executioner. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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