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
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Iranian authorities must immediately implement a moratorium on all executions and abolish the death penalty.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025 -
Under current law, inmates will be executed by lethal injection unless that method is found to be unconstitutional or the lethal drugs used in executions are unavailable.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Each carrier partnership requires custom technical implementations and ongoing maintenance of integration pipelines.—
Harneet Kalra,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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His technology talent sourcing expertise across SAP, Salesforce, and cloud technologies supports the high-impact implementations critical to revenue growth.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite her accomplishments in the worlds of faith, fashion and pageants, Erika emphasized that her priorities in life included being a wife and mother.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Beyond his accomplishments on the gridiron, Payton was also a community leader and committed philanthropist, which earned him the honor of having the NFL Man of the Year Award named after him.—
Tyler Holzhammer,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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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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