Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decapitator
Noun
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Far from glamorous, but also far from the executioner’s ax.—
Eva Wolchover,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025 -
Miller has been like the executioner for aging fighters in his weight region.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Avoiding trial also uses fewer government resources and spares the victims' families from having to re-live the horror in court – or seeing the murderers continue to smirk and joke around.—
Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Israel will try to save the life of Kfir Bibas— the red-haired baby who has spent most of his life in captivity—in exchange for unrepentant murderers.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Peter and Rose are then tossed into a world of conspiracy involving White House officials, a metro bombing, assassins, the vice president's daughter, and Peter's own father — who, according to official record, was a traitor to his country.—
Ashley Boucher,
EW.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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The assassins were working for Gordon Wick (Ben Cotton), the real culprit behind the DC Metro bombing along with Vice President Redfield (Christopher Shyer).—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
21 Jan. 2025
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Several other leading figures of the period ended their days on the executioner’s block, including the unhappy Comte de Chalais, whose headsman bungled the job and ended up frantically chopping away at his screaming victim with a small hatchet.—
David A. Bell,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Mar. 2012
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Even if your reality is the headsman’s block!—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2021
Noun
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Did Erik Menendez really play hangman with Leslie Abramson in court?—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
27 Sep. 2024
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The second story is about Eichmann’s prison guard, Haim (Yoav Levi), a Moroccan Jew who takes pains to make sure his charge is unharmed and delivered to the hangman’s noose in as good a shape as possible.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
28 June 2024
Noun
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After discovering Morrison’s journals over a decade prior, Chewning — the executor of Morrison’s estate along with their brother Andrew, decided to publish them.—
Makena Gera,
People.com,
12 Jan. 2025
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Robert Seidler was the executor of Peter Seidler’s will and estate until stepping down last May; Matt Seidler replaced him per terms of the family trust.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Two brothers who were convicted in the 1991 rape and murder of a tourist in Hawaii filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that the police had framed them and then bungled an investigation that could have brought the true killer to justice.—
Simon J. Levien,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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The real killer, Rudy Guede, got off with a light sentence.—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Decapitator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decapitator. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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