PERPETRATIONS Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

perpetrations

noun

plural of perpetration

as in executions

the doing of an action the perpetration of a series of pranks that resulted in an expulsion from school

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Noun

Months later, a report found the state hadn't complied with its own lethal injection process since its revision in 2018, resulting in executions being conducted without proper testing of the drugs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Lee similarly paused executions in 2022 for a review, and earlier this year the state failed to carry out a lethal injection on a death row inmate after struggling to find a vein.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

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Budge said some of her proudest accomplishments during her time on the council include Mather Veterans Village, the Sacramento region’s first permanent supportive housing development for homeless and disabled veterans.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
But in this drama, Mozart dies in the most undignified way, but his reputation and artistic accomplishments endure.

— Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of accomplishments

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Poor-quality implementations of even the strongest new PQC standards could create devastating vulnerabilities across hardware, software, cloud and critical systems.

— Ali El Kaafarani, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
The newer mechanism stopped the attack on one Intel generation but failed on another, indicating that implementations can differ between chip designs.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of implementations

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If everything else goes to plan, Tentsile will begin early fulfillment deliveries in May and standard fulfillments in August.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026
Palestinians and Israeli Jews also came to regard the other side’s actions as fulfillments of their own national nightmares, ethnic cleansing for one and extermination for the other.

— Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025

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