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Mr. Rubio said Sunday it was unrealistic to take more risks in the raid to decapitate more of the regime, which is fair enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

La Nina usually reduces high-altitude winds that can decapitate hurricanes, and generally during a La Nina there’s more instability or storminess in the atmosphere, which can seed hurricane development.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

On site, the workers decapitate exposed piping and pump cement into well pipes, sealing them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

Surfer 1: “Taking off on a wave is like surfer bowling out here. How do you not decapitate someone?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

The poor truck was rattling to the point I expected the hood to fly off and decapitate a couple of pine trees.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Wind shear often decapitates hurricanes and makes it harder for nascent storms to develop.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

Not a lot of wind shear that decapitates storms?

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

In one telling poem, frost blithely decapitates an innocent flower in a meaningless show of its power; the flower does not react, because there is nothing unusual or objectionable about this tragedy.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

She decapitates a squirming mealworm with her gloved thumb and feeds it with forceps to an injured, .014-ounce Eastern pipistrelle bat that probably was creamed by a car.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2011

The porpoises know it also; they have a way of biting the cuttle-fish which decapitates it.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

Now, the despot regime has been decapitated, but ConocoPhillips isn’t jumping up and down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

"Sometimes you'll see ant heads on the bee legs because they were feeding and in response to an attack, the bee bit the ant and decapitated it."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025

"Escape from New York's" poster lingered on the decapitated Statue of Liberty head to suggest a subversive ominous atmosphere.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024

Gerraty started hearing about the decapitated harbor seals as he was doing research on the coastal coyotes’ diet; he said it was well documented that they would scavenge already-dead seals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

It is a puzzling fact that chickens can run around in a frenzy for some seconds after being decapitated, but I do not think they do this for a whole hour.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

“They like decapitating the tall poppies and taxing until the pips squeak.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

They attack hives, destroying them in mere hours and decapitating bees in what scientists call their “slaughter phase.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

As for Mr Essama, he is now less focussed on decapitating statues, turning his attention to fundraising to build statues of Cameroonian heroes and calling for reparations for colonial era crimes.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2020

But Jordan and the United Arab Emirates are wary of decapitating the Syrian regime before a transition is ready.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2014

The position of a little city surrounded with untilled land and an empty sepulcher was really not worth the trouble of decapitating mankind through the centuries.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster