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guillotine

verb as in decapitate

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“It’s not like the guillotine is coming out,” said Roberts, the retired banker, who spoke via Zoom from a vacation in Paris.

Badinter, a lawyer who campaigned for an end to capital punishment after one of his clients was beheaded with a guillotine in the 1970s, died last year aged 95.

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Some demonstrators brought a makeshift guillotine that generated “significant media coverage,” police noted.

South Africa hoped for a quick execution but for the next 80 minutes or so, Australia managed to dodge the guillotine.

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Gurlek, a former deputy justice minister under Erdogan, has been accused by the opposition of acting as a "mobile guillotine" for the president in targeting his opponents in Istanbul.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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