execute
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Mark Joseph Stern: The Supreme Court held 25 years ago that it is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to execute intellectually disabled people.
From Slate • May 23, 2026
Quantum systems’ disruptive potential lies in their ability to execute Shor’s algorithm, or find the prime factors of an integer in polynomial time.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Search will also draw on Gemini Spark, the company’s new agentic AI assistant, which can execute tasks or shop for products through the Search interface.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
So the fact that I couldn’t execute in 24 hours is sticking with me.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
“You didn’t execute the game plan, Finley. I had to bench you. Would’ve done the same thing to any other player.”
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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