decapitation

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Under such conditions, pre-authorised target lists and delegated launch authority could be deliberate safeguards against decapitation.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Shimshoni, the retired Israeli general, added that with an adversary like Hezbollah, that is motivated, ideological and religious, decapitation strikes will have little strategic significance.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

If all this jesting and jousting about historically documented misogyny, maternal misery and decapitation isn’t your goblet of grog after a while, “Six” smartly pivots in the final wife’s number, “I Don’t Need Your Love.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Some Puritans remained in England to fight in a civil war that saw the decapitation of a king and the arrival of a commonwealth.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2022

Saint Winifred recovered from her decapitation and became an abbess.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz