decapitator

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Noun
  • She was executed on May 27, 1541 by an executioner’s assistant, the executioner having been called away that day.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • In 2003 the United States topples Hussein and delivers him to his executioners.
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • This psychological thriller stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia struggling to track down his wife’s murderer using a system of tattoos and notes.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • These artisans, with their trade secrets, were kept on Murano, a cluster of islands just across the lagoon from the city, ostensibly as a precaution against fire, though the state would also send assassins after anyone who tried to leave.
    Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • As a pirate assassin and post-apocalyptic warrior, Krem of the Yellow Hills connects with Aries.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Two other men, subjects of excellent Holbein drawings in the show, would keep appointments with the headsman.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Once upon a time, the queen could have sent rebels to the Tower and the headsman’s block, even relatives—especially relatives.
    Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
Noun
  • The former cop also claimed to have found a hangman’s noose under Epstein’s mattress.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
  • Even-handed, compassionate, and as suffocatingly tense as a hangman's noose, Munich is Spielberg's most underrated film.
    Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • Contact certain people about the debt Debt collectors are generally permitted to contact the executor, administrator or personal representative handling the estate.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The digital replication right does not expire at a person’s death, and can be transferred and licensed by heirs, executors and others.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • An informant for the FBI quickly identified members of the Ku Klux Klan as her killers.
    Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • The 16-year-old killer accused of fatally stabbing a young man in the heart of Dyker Beach Park in Brooklyn made an impromptu confession to an off-duty cop just 45 minutes later, prosecutors said Monday.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
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“Decapitator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decapitator. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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