execute
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If these death row inmates are utterly changed — no longer dangerous, and hopeful of contributing to society — what purpose does it serve for the state to execute them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Fuller had previously said the initial offer lacked details about how Ancora would execute the transaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I do feel confident based on what I’ve seen, and then his experience to put him out there and go execute at a high level,” coach Sean McVay said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
At a court hearing on Wednesday, Tennessee Assistant Attorney General Will Ayers told the judge he does not know whether the state intends to try to execute her again.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
We would learn how to execute military commands and repeat our drill and ceremony so many times that “right face,” “left face,” and “parade rest” became as familiar as our own names.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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USC executes yet another belly flop against a top opponent, and Gary Patterson’s vaunted defense is giving up more than 35 points per game in the Big Ten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
And whoever executes their gameplan the best will lift the trophy.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Citadel executes roughly 35% of all retail order volume in the U.S., making it the largest market maker trading against this cohort.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
One of the others is the Brick, that little piece of plastic that has exactly one job—to make my phone stop working in distracting ways—and executes it to perfection.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026
She leaps from her perch, deploys a tiny parachute, and executes a soft landing—straddling the thrumming ray gun as if it was a bucking bronco.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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Virginia and 10 others states have abolished the death penalty in the past 20 years, and 32 states haven’t executed anyone in at least a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
"I was very careful how I executed this."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Agents from Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant authorized by a federal judge, according to the Associated Press and The Washington Post.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The Milwaukee Brewers executed their game plan and won.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The house had once been owned by General Ludwig Beck, who had been executed by the Nazis for his role in an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Because of that potential financial liability, Mejia’s office said that “Angelenos deserve full transparency from LA28 related to all spending and revenue incurred in the process of planning and executing the 2028 Olympic Games.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Stephens analyst Jim Salera, in a research note on Thursday, said that while executing on any deal could get messy, around 90% of U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The flagship GPT-6 Astra agentic model was released in September and specialises in complex reasoning and executing tasks autonomously.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
However, they also see a scenario in which bots disrupt banks’ engagement with customers, scanning for products and executing transactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
As he lifts his black-gloved hand, palm open, one of the kittens jumps into it and bounces off his palm, leaping through the hoop, executing a rather impressive somersault at the pinnacle of its leap.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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