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reaper

[ree-per] / ˈri pər /


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He wasn’t a man to sit idly in death’s anteroom, awaiting the grim reaper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

But two decades on, the grim reaper still walks the rows: 110 degrees, no tree, no tarp, a single water jug growing warm, its handle slick from dust and hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

He added that authorities were also using reaper drones.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

Ms. Council is making jam with pineapples or cantaloupe instead of peaches, and customers will have to wait until next year for her peach reaper sauce, made with Georgia peaches and Carolina reaper peppers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

Today, thanks to the white reaper, Wayne Robbins alone could keep up with the task.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Chanting and singing "free the Amazon", demonstrators in host city Belém have been carrying three giant coffins reading Oil, Coal and Gas flanked by two grim reapers.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

HH: That is so true, and so necessary for fundamental change, because we need new undertakers, new reapers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

In 1988, her father, a retired schoolteacher, got a big order for sheets — which usually depict festive skeletons, skulls, grim reapers or Catrinas — to decorate city government offices.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Memes and jokes featuring tombstones and grim reapers abounded.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell




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