execute
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SpaceX had been set to execute its first launch since the IPO on Thursday, with a Starship take-off scrapped after its launch window opened at 6:45 p.m.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
"It is filmmaking at a magnitude few modern directors could ever realistically imagine, demand, or execute."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Healthcare, industrials, and financials are the market’s three leading sectors over the past month as investors execute a quiet rotation out of tech and artificial intelligence names.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
“We proudly stand behind this agreement which delivers on our commitment to execute a safe, secure, and fiscally responsible Games that benefits Los Angeles for decades to come,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
Burnham was a talented artist and architect in his own right, but his greatest strength lay in his ability to win clients and execute Root’s elegant designs.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
You want to be the person who decides what to do, not the one who executes it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
He said that Schulman’s focus on cost-cutting and simplifying plans for customers could help inject stability into the business if Verizon executes well.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 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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The Supreme Court told us in Slaughter that the president’s constitutional duty is to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
The army said the children and staff were rescued following "carefully planned and executed" operations alongside intelligence agencies, police and local vigilante groups.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
Completed buybacks — not just authorized repurchases but ones that are actually executed — are also running at a record pace, according to Rubin.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Most skills came back seamlessly, even ones she hadn’t executed in competition since she was 16.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Although Billington was in fact hanged, at least two other Europeans were executed in North America before him.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Multiple news outlets and a former federal immigration official said the order allows for exceptions if officers are executing a criminal warrant and working with partner law enforcement agencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
There’s an art to executing the perfect “soft” off day.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The FTC, the court said, “unquestionably exercises executive power,” its work the very essence of executing the law.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Despite his superstar status, he made long and intense recovery runs before executing perfectly timed slide tackles to stop dangerously fast breaks.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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