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beheads

verb

present tense third-person singular of behead

as in heads

to cut off the head of Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded for plotting against Queen Elizabeth

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Recent Examples of beheads Lizzie’s newfound happiness is shattered at the end of the second episode, however, when Abby enters her stepdaughter’s dovecote and beheads every bird inside after growing increasingly annoyed with their cooing during mating season. — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 Judith, who beheads an opposing general in order to save her community. — Christy Cobb, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026 Joyce beheads Vecna while all the characters expel their collective trauma from five seasons of violence and misery. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025 Later, Ciri watches helplessly as Bonhart beheads her. — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Oct. 2025 Walt Disney Imagineering updated the storyline of Black Widow Bride Constance Hatchway earlier this year by turning her from an axe murderer who beheads her wealthy husbands into a more mournful figure overwhelmed by the dread of lost love. — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025 As king, Shakespeare’s Macbeth meets a tragic end when civil war erupts and his rival Macduff beheads him. — Marlene L. Daut september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025

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Jeske, who heads the Quantum Sensing Group at Fraunhofer at the research institute, was the the first to come up with a theoretical model for a magnetic-field-sensitive laser system using diamond with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers a decade ago.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
Paramount film heads Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein will oversee films for both movie studios after the merger, with a goal to release 30 movies each year.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026

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The scene where Reacher decapitates an opponent by pinning him inside an open elevator shaft while the elevator descends from above arrives moments later.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
The shower curtain opens, revealing an old woman, who stabs and decapitates Mary.

— Therie Hendrey-Seabrook, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Mar. 2026

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