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reaper

[ree-per] / ˈri pər /


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He added that authorities were also using reaper drones.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

Mercifully for Edmonton, they have Leon Draisaitl, their German goal-scoring virtuoso and overtime reaper, who yet again found magic in the sudden-death stanza.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2025

The paintings depict implausible scenarios: What if the grim reaper slipped on a banana on his way to kill you?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2025

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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