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guillotine

verb as in decapitate

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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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The American, 32, out-grappled Edwards throughout before ending the contest with a guillotine choke.

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