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reaper

[ree-per] / ˈri pər /


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The U.S. military said in late September that it had permanently stationed MQ-9 reaper drones in South Korea to support surveillance and reconnaissance operations.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 11, 2025

The paintings depict implausible scenarios: What if the grim reaper slipped on a banana on his way to kill you?

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2025

Kyogo Furuhashi doesn't need to don the cloak and scythe of the grim reaper when he fetches up at Ibrox on Sunday.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2024

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

And probably happier that I wasn’t the grim reaper.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds

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

“Many parents are OK with children dressing as assassins, evil villains or grim reapers, yet they seldom take the costume choice to mean anything more than playful and fun.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 29, 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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