as in executioner
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Noun
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Sadly, both the XLR-V and STS-V would only last a single generation, meeting the executioner in 2009 as parent company GM struggled under the weight of the financial crisis and subsequent corporate restructuring.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
15 July 2025 -
This mark signals that her would-be executioner is part of a cult.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2025
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Developer Steven Ramos said the business would be a butcher shop, a bakery with coffee, and an ice cream counter.—
John Tuohy,
IndyStar,
14 July 2025
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The market is just full of butcher shops, with the most ghastly whole pigs and halves of steers hanging from horrible hooks.—
John Updike,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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“Slayer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slayer. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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