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You cannot decapitate a movement with no head, and you cannot sanction an organization that does not exist.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Mr. Rubio said Sunday it was unrealistic to take more risks in the raid to decapitate more of the regime, which is fair enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

“I currently know that he did not decapitate it, even though he said that’s what he was doing, so that’s what I had assumed that he did,” she said Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

La Nina usually reduces high-altitude winds that can decapitate hurricanes, and generally during a La Nina there’s more instability or storminess in the atmosphere, which can seed hurricane development.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

The poor truck was rattling to the point I expected the hood to fly off and decapitate a couple of pine trees.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Wind shear often decapitates hurricanes and makes it harder for nascent storms to develop.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

Not a lot of wind shear that decapitates storms?

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

In one telling poem, frost blithely decapitates an innocent flower in a meaningless show of its power; the flower does not react, because there is nothing unusual or objectionable about this tragedy.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

She decapitates a squirming mealworm with her gloved thumb and feeds it with forceps to an injured, .014-ounce Eastern pipistrelle bat that probably was creamed by a car.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2011

This time Private Mucklewame leads the field, and decapitates a dandelion.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

Now, the despot regime has been decapitated, but ConocoPhillips isn’t jumping up and down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

And this week he said Zambia's generation capacity had been "decapitated" by a recent drought owing to its reliance on hydroelectricity.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

"Sometimes you'll see ant heads on the bee legs because they were feeding and in response to an attack, the bee bit the ant and decapitated it."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025

"Escape from New York's" poster lingered on the decapitated Statue of Liberty head to suggest a subversive ominous atmosphere.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024

The golden haze illuminated the edges of the willows and a decapitated angel statue.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

There has to be warm water, it has to run deep and there has to be little to no crosswinds decapitating the storm, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

Now paroled, she telegraphs her angst with sunken eyes and chapped lips; the film’s sickly yellow lighting does the same, as does Ruth’s night-shift factory gig decapitating salmon.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

“They like decapitating the tall poppies and taxing until the pips squeak.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

As for Mr Essama, he is now less focussed on decapitating statues, turning his attention to fundraising to build statues of Cameroonian heroes and calling for reparations for colonial era crimes.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2020

Manson was in the rear, decapitating daisies with his heavy oak stick.

From The Rapids by Alan Sullivan