decapitation

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Regicides are a thing of the past, but political decapitations at five-year intervals are not.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022

In the United States, there have been conflicts over the removal or decapitations of statues of historical figures such as Christopher Columbus and St. Junipero Serra.

From Reuters • Jan. 10, 2022

The most brazen cases amount to corporate decapitations in which top executives are forced out under duress and replaced by Assad loyalists.

From Washington Post

Critic George Steiner was the victim of one of the neatest decapitations in literary history.

From Time Magazine Archive