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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Inmates executed by nitrogen gas have displayed various levels of shaking during the executions, and lawyers for the state and inmates have disagreed on whether those are involuntary or a sign of suffering.—
Kim Chandler,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026 -
Defense attorneys call for moratorium on Tennessee executions Defense attorneys in Tennessee are calling on the state to stop executing inmates until an ongoing lawsuit over its lethal injection protocol is resolved.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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Based on wins and losses and his on-field accomplishments, Leach is far from a slam-dunk Hall-of-Fame candidate.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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The extended family includes more academics, all of whom have their own impressive lists of degrees and accomplishments.—
Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
2 June 2026
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Two prompts can produce two working-but-incompatible implementations of the same requirement.—
Tiago Azevedo,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Various Python implementations of the algorithm are available on GitHub.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2026
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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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“Perpetrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrations. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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