PURSUANCES Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

pursuances

noun

plural of pursuance

as in executions

the doing of an action until recently he has been fully engaged in pursuance of his duties as governor

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Noun

The state has conducted 43 executions under DeSantis, or 31 percent of the 140 carried out since 1976.

— Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
Investigators also accuse Iran’s theocratic government of crimes against humanity in crushing dissent, citing killings, torture and looming executions, and urge both Washington and Tehran to halt abuses and compensate victims.

— Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

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Dataset is a structural problem, because today’s data quality reflects years of process decisions, system implementations, acquisitions and work-arounds, and there is no shortcut through it.

— Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 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

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Still, with all the aforementioned accomplishments, and decades later, Steinem said that her naysayers used her bunny work in an attempt to discredit her.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
In contrast, there was no such rush to recognize Steinem beyond her liberal and centrist constituency, even from conservatives who had expressed respect for her accomplishments as an influential historical figure.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of accomplishments

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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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