hangman

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Recent Examples of hangman By entering guilty pleas, Darrow didn’t have to persuade 12 jurors to spare his clients the hangman’s noose. Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2024 But since taking office, the president has been tightening up his definition of freedom like a hangman’s noose. Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025 Did Erik Menendez really play hangman with Leslie Abramson in court? Jessica Sager, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for hangman
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Noun
  • Meanwhile, Undertaker plays the omnipotent executioner who can’t quite get Michaels to the chopping block.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Now those blue passports will mark you as either one of Trump's willing executioners or one of his hapless enablers.
    Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Even if your reality is the headsman’s block!
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Joe Biden and Border Czar Harris allowed murderers, rapists, and vicious gang members to flood into our country unvetted.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The attorney for Rachel Morin's family says the trial of her murderer is a testament to relentless law enforcement and a devastating indictment of immigration failures that allowed her killer to murder the Maryland mom of five.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Conclusion The responsibilities of an executor extend far beyond asset management.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D., Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • 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, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In The Accountant 2, premiering April 25 in theaters, Affleck and Bernthal reunite as brothers Christian and Braxton, who come together to help track down a mysterious assassin.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The beret-lover with the $20,000 necklace (Lauren McKnight) was the second assassin.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2025

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