reaper
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He wasn’t a man to sit idly in death’s anteroom, awaiting the grim reaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
But two decades on, the grim reaper still walks the rows: 110 degrees, no tree, no tarp, a single water jug growing warm, its handle slick from dust and hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Kyogo Furuhashi doesn't need to don the cloak and scythe of the grim reaper when he fetches up at Ibrox on Sunday.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024
Ms. Council is making jam with pineapples or cantaloupe instead of peaches, and customers will have to wait until next year for her peach reaper sauce, made with Georgia peaches and Carolina reaper peppers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
The last person I need to see right now is a know-it-all grim reaper.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Chanting and singing "free the Amazon", demonstrators in host city Belém have been carrying three giant coffins reading Oil, Coal and Gas flanked by two grim reapers.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
HH: That is so true, and so necessary for fundamental change, because we need new undertakers, new reapers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
In 1988, her father, a retired schoolteacher, got a big order for sheets — which usually depict festive skeletons, skulls, grim reapers or Catrinas — to decorate city government offices.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Memes and jokes featuring tombstones and grim reapers abounded.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
The hooded people turn and stare, in a wave, like a thousand grim reapers.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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Human Geography - Middle School
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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Human Geography - High School
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