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Recent Examples of executioner
The painting, measuring six feet in width and featuring as its central subject a midcentury executioner’s chair, is estimated around $30 million.
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Angelica Villa For Artnews, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2025
Jane, who may have been as young as 16, is shown blindfolded as an executioner with an axe waits to behead her.
—Pan Pylas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
On January 16th, Yorkshire’s executioner hanged all fourteen condemned men.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, Undertaker plays the omnipotent executioner who can’t quite get Michaels to the chopping block.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
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Angelica Villa For Artnews, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2025
Jane, who may have been as young as 16, is shown blindfolded as an executioner with an axe waits to behead her.
—Pan Pylas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
On January 16th, Yorkshire’s executioner hanged all fourteen condemned men.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, Undertaker plays the omnipotent executioner who can’t quite get Michaels to the chopping block.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for executioner
Noun
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To populate this murderer’s row of, well, murderers, Davidson races against the clock to court talent and get them to New York in time for filming.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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The public believed this story of intentionality so completely that every shark bite was essentially a murder, and every shark a potential murderer, and the beach was the scene of a crime by a deviant monster against innocent beachgoers.—
Chris Pepin-Neff,
Scientific American,
26 May 2025
Noun
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King Shrewd secretly trains young Fitz as an assassin, harnessing his ancestral magic.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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Those were the final words uttered by Emperor Uriel Septum—played by none other than Star Trek's Patrick Stewart—before an assassin leaped out of the shadows to cut him down.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 May 2025
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“Executioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/executioner. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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