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
Walmart, too, has worked with OpenAI to allow customers to plan and execute purchases through the platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
SpaceX may be betting its future on artificial intelligence, but for now investors are leery of the massive amount of money required to execute on those ambitions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Sometimes Joe seemed to have forced Frank into a corner, but at the last minute Frank would execute a daring escape.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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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
Early is so certain of everything he wants his debut film to be, and executes those desires with such consistent dexterity and style that watching “Maddie’s Secret” is akin to seeing someone win the lottery.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 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
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
He became “the first person executed in the United States for a conviction based on the DNA-matching technology popularly known as genetic fingerprinting.”
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
How prisoners are executed has become just as much of a point of debate as whether they should be.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The $1 billion figure assumes the options on some contracts are fully executed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
According to Cicero, he was executed some years later when an asp was slipped into his hammock—his end providing a fitting case history for another book on statecraft.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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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
Takeover speculation could still push the stock higher, but L&G has said it is focused solely on executing its strategy, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Anthropic said its models, without being asked to, wandered out of a simulated testing environment and gained internet access before executing hacks on the companies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We all know you’re smart and brave and a good shot. But we need soldiers in the field. You don’t know the first thing about executing orders, and you’re not exactly at your physical peak.”
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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