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[ek-si-kyoot] / ˈɛk sɪˌkjut /




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All I know is that when Pebble Beach’s traffic control staff forced me to execute a tricky U-turn on a narrow road—at night, in front of witnesses—the Multistrada nosed around beautifully.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

You’ll answer some questions about your timeline and purpose for the funds, and you’ll get back a suggested allocation of the funds, which you can then execute on your own.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

Here is a writer and director with not just plenty on his mind, but the preternatural proficiency to execute those ideas in haunting, humorous and really quite moving ways.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Officials contend the discrepancy between the computer count and the paper tally is “a good deed that went punished” — the result of exhausted officials being handed an extra-credit project they couldn’t quite execute.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

“Nothing much could be preserved underwater,” they declared, adding that “it’s not possible to execute proper archaeological plans underwater.”

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

The United States rarely executes women, no matter how gruesome their crimes.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

And whoever executes their gameplan the best will lift the trophy.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

You want to be the person who decides what to do, not the one who executes it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

He said that Schulman’s focus on cost-cutting and simplifying plans for customers could help inject stability into the business if Verizon executes well.

From MarketWatch Apr. 2, 2026

She executes a perfect curtsey, and then she turns and leaves.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Rodger said a second incident involving Doherty on 6 March 2024, saw her access details about a search warrant being executed and pass on details about it to the same man as before.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

He executed the system, but couldn’t transcend it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

At least 16 women are among those executed and at least 13 "political prisoners" affiliated with banned opposition groups, it said.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Coincidentally, last March, Ward gave the green light for Carruthers’ execution after his attorneys had argued that Carruthers was not competent to be executed because he was “consumed by psychotic delusions.”

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

He further explained that the traders at UBS who executed the trade were motivated mainly by their own models—which, at the moment of the trade, suggested they had turned a profit of $30 million.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Internal testing determined that the forthcoming model, called Astra, is capable of devising and executing novel hacks against difficult targets with only limited human input, OpenAI said Tuesday in a blog post.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

On guitar, Thorn offers a sound that can be as classic as you need it to be while immaculately executing new Whigsian concoctions.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

"While there's still meaningful work ahead, we're encouraged by the progress we're making and remain focused on executing with discipline," said chief executive Michael Fiddelke.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

His obsessive court rituals — including meticulously aligning his water bottles and executing his precise pre-point routines — were not merely superstitions, but coping mechanisms in a high-stress, solitary sport.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

In his pop-eyed hurry to pull bones out of the ground, he tore open the site with a bulldozer and didn’t bother taking notes, sketching maps, or executing profile drawings.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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