verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
beautifully
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Balto G A beautifully executed , edge-of-your-seat exciting animated adventure.
poorly
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There were hardly any well known names; the recently purchased Simon Vouet is very poorly executed .
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Their spree of corporate takeovers is, for the most part, wildly ill-advised and poorly executed .
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There is an occasional poorly executed sketch of a tiny organism or of a bone and muscle structure.
summarily
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In fact he was summarily executed .
■ NOUN
charge
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Thereafter the defendants executed a charge on their property in favour of the second defendants.
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The husband procured his wife to execute the charge by pressure that, the trial judge held, constituted undue influence.
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On 4 December 1989 both the appellants executed a further charge on the property in favour of the mortgagees.
command
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This will execute a command in every subdirectory of a hard disk.
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Only tap Enter to start a new paragraph, after a heading, or to execute a command .
document
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It's surprising how many mistakes an otherwise intelligent person can make when left to execute a document unaided.
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When Woolman displayed a gift for the field of law, his employer put him to work executing legal documents .
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This makes it possible for the proxy to execute efficient caching of documents that are requested by a number of clients.
instruction
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The control unit executed first the left-hand instruction , then the right-instruction, of each word in the program.
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It has been designed to execute most single-word instructions in a single clock cycle through a four-stage instruction pipeline.
law
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However, in March 1676, the King commanded them to execute these laws with renewed vigour.
man
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I do not approve of what they did, but it was a brilliantly executed attack by brave men .
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Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty nearly 30 years ago, Maryland has executed three men .
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Thought they could stand up in full view in a club crammed with people, execute the man .
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The South stated it would execute any black man caught fighting for the North.
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Last week Virginia executed two young men , both in their 20s, for murders that they committed when they were 17.
order
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The school board, stymied, asked the federal court for an exemption from contempt proceedings for not executing the court order .
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Hal had executed the order , but he had not acknowledged it, as he invariably did.
people
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On orders from the top, they systematically executed thousands of people .
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Last year, Texas executed 40 people , the most by a U.S. state since 1930.
plan
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It will execute these plans by planning a coordinated series of contracts with selected providers and will then monitor them.
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They want me to facilitate their efforts; to help them execute their marketing plans and personal growth objectives.
prisoner
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In fact we executed such prisoners , but Teitgen only realised that later.
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Or the newly dead, such as executed prisoners .
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Mississippi has not executed a prisoner since 1989.
program
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If the computer does not receive this message, it does not execute the program .
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They were expected to plan strategy and execute programs for their work units.
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One also learns how machines can be built that will execute these programs and actually exhibit the capacity written into them.
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The new copy of the virus is executed when a user executes the host program .
squad
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The death sentence on Eduardo Díaz Betancourt was upheld on appeal, and he was executed by firing squad on Jan. 20.
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In 1923 three prisoners were executed by firing squad .
turn
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I executed a hard right turn , but could not see any other aircraft in my vicinity.
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Their wings do not normally come into contact, but even so there are problems when the dragonfly executes sharp turns .
warrant
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On 2 March 1988 two bailiffs attended to execute the warrant .
work
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One of his specialities is minimal invasive surgery; executing the maximum work through the smallest incision.
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It comes as news to many visitors that these artists do not themselves execute their works .
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They were expected to plan strategy and execute programs for their work units.
■ VERB
try
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Now go and try to execute them as precisely as drawn!
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In one apocryphal story that circulated on trading floors years ago, Black once tried to execute several trades using his model.
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He was tried and executed , protesting that he had nothing to do with the affair.
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The Communists dutifully echoed his admission, disclosing that even loyal Vietminh veterans had been unjustly tried and executed .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brock's attorney has yet to execute the will.
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Franklin is in charge of executing the company's reorganization plan.
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King Charles I was executed on 30th January 1649.
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The directors make the decisions, but it's the managers who have to execute them.
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The goal of landing people on Mars will not be an easy one to execute .
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The show's dance routines were well executed.
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The two young men spent 6 months in jail waiting to be executed.
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This is a backward and cruel society, in which people are executed for homosexuality and adultery.
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This program automatically executes the commands once a day.
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We will not be able to execute the programs without more funding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to police sources, many of the dead were civilians who had been tortured before being executed.
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California has executed four San Quentin inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, the last two by lethal injection.
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Hundreds of officers were arrested, tortured and executed.
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In any event, surveying becomes a much more complicated business and much more difficult to execute satisfactorily.
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Making it happen means involving the hearts and minds of those who have to execute and deliver.
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No federal prisoner has been executed in 37 years.
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The school board, stymied, asked the federal court for an exemption from contempt proceedings for not executing the court order.