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Examples
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"She Weiss had an executioner's knife for anybody who didn't abide her way of thinking."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: NPR, as Predicted, Caves on Juan Williams Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011
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"She Weiss had an executioner's knife for anybody who didn't abide her way of thinking."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: NPR, as Predicted, Caves on Juan Williams Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011
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Cut to STAGE MANAGER wearing an executioner's hood and a headset radio.
Doug Lieblich: Opening to a Late Night Show Aired in the Middle Ages Doug Lieblich 2011
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"She Weiss had an executioner's knife for anybody who didn't abide her way of thinking."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: NPR, as Predicted, Caves on Juan Williams Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011
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Even if the Journal's darker account is more accurate, the executioner's hand has been stayed for the moment.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: No Social Security Cuts in the State of the Union? RJ 2011
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Cut to STAGE MANAGER wearing an executioner's hood and a headset radio.
Doug Lieblich: Opening to a Late Night Show Aired in the Middle Ages Doug Lieblich 2011
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In under 10 years, Europe was aflame with what was to become the 30 years war; within 30, the English civil war had broken out, consigning Archbishop Bancroft's successor William Laud and James's second son Charles to the executioner's block, an outcome chillingly predicted by Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, head of the committee that translated Genesis, to Laud's face.
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Since last week's technicolor allegations came to light, the talk surrounding the future of the University of Miami's football program has centered on one thing: whether the NCAA will smite this team with its executioner's axe of doom.
Does Miami Need Football? Hannah Karp 2011
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When meaning came, dread wrapped itself around his neck like an executioner's rope, for it said: I know now that he is near, and moving.
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Even if the Journal's darker account is more accurate, the executioner's hand has been stayed for the moment.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: No Social Security Cuts in the State of the Union? RJ 2011
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