execute
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“The federal stay was lifted, but that does not require the county to execute Bruce immediately,“ the group wrote on Facebook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Governments and tech giants are pouring huge sums into building data centres that can train and run AI tools such as chatbots, image generators and agents that can execute tasks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
He’s got a super-soaker “Goonies”-meets-early-Peter Jackson mindset and a list of clever kills to execute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
And he brought in an antitrust crusader in Lina Khan to chair the city’s Economic Development Corp., the government body that the real estate community closely relies on to execute large-scale development projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
I was given methods and approaches to attack or defend and was told to execute these moves with speed and strength.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Analysts at Oppenheimer led by Colin Rusch said they “continue to be encouraged by the company’s capital efficiency as it executes against growth initiatives while buying back stock.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
And whoever executes their gameplan the best will lift the trophy.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
One of the others is the Brick, that little piece of plastic that has exactly one job—to make my phone stop working in distracting ways—and executes it to perfection.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026
The model, acting as a planner, “dynamically decides which skills and tools it needs to solve the problem, iterates on the plan, and executes it without rigid preprogramming,” Salazar said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
She leaps from her perch, deploys a tiny parachute, and executes a soft landing—straddling the thrumming ray gun as if it was a bucking bronco.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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Three Pfizer insiders executed transactions directly on the heels of the drugmaker’s second-quarter earnings report.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Even the abolitionist Death Penalty Information Center concedes that “there is no way to tell how many of the … people executed since 1976 may … have been innocent.”
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, who has maintained his innocence for four years and is bedridden, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday under the same protocol that failed twelve weeks ago with Carruthers.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
FSG will maintain control of the team, and will cash in on their investment if this deal is executed, reports say.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
When he was sure the plan was being executed to his satisfaction, Otto said, “Get me back to the lab while the others finish up here.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Its findings may reveal more about the dimensions of America’s practice of executing the innocent and show that it is anything but a myth.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
The possibility of executing the innocent has gone a long way to change the national conversation about the death penalty.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
Over the years, ICE has done several deals to deepen its presence in the bond market, but its biggest business is in providing fixed-income data and analytics, rather than actually executing bond trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“If we see levers or a path that we believe would create superior value for our shareholders than executing our current strategy, we will, of course, carefully consider them,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The cycle of mounting and executing and moving on to the next project has skidded to a halt, and he cannot say why.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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