pursuances

noun

plural of pursuance
as in executions
the doing of an action until recently he has been fully engaged in pursuance of his duties as governor

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  1. executions
  2. implementations
  3. accomplishments
  4. fulfillments
Noun
  • The first consists of expert demonstrations, which document reference task executions carried out by human operators in real-world environments.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The executions include that of Christa Pike, the first woman set to be put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of executions
Noun
  • Dataset is a structural problem, because today’s data quality reflects years of process decisions, system implementations, acquisitions and work-arounds, and there is no shortcut through it.
    — Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The newer mechanism stopped the attack on one Intel generation but failed on another, indicating that implementations can differ between chip designs.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of implementations
Noun
  • It’s often said that great athletes struggle to talk about their sport and their accomplishments.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Sabrina Carpenter will have reason to celebrate her career accomplishments on the Billboard 200 two weeks in a row.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of accomplishments
Noun
  • If everything else goes to plan, Tentsile will begin early fulfillment deliveries in May and standard fulfillments in August.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Palestinians and Israeli Jews also came to regard the other side’s actions as fulfillments of their own national nightmares, ethnic cleansing for one and extermination for the other.
    — Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of fulfillments
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