execution
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"To me it's more about the execution of what I'm doing right now, and the execution wasn't there this week."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The company had blamed the poor outlook on sputtering growth from its key branded-checkout product, which lets customers use PayPal when making online purchases, and poor internal execution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Dali will turn what we’ve learned into repeatable execution as we build out the full system to make AI broadly useful for people and businesses,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman said in a statement.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Pennsylvania has a similar process, but has not carried out an execution since 1999.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Their cases weren't active, and there were no deadlines on the horizon, but I hadn't seen them since the Richardson execution and they had been anxious to talk.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Thursday's planned executions are occurring amid a steady decline of support for the death penalty.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Just over halfway into 2026, 12 of the 19 executions occurred in Florida.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But about 40% of the deaths were in one state, Florida, making the Sunshine State the biggest factor contributing to the US's rise in executions.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Indonesia has some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws, including the death penalty for traffickers, but has maintained a moratorium on executions for several years.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Both past tenses have been around for hundreds of years, but since the sixteenth century it’s been customary to reserve hanged for referring to executions, and to use hung for other meanings.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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