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Grim Reaper

Death, as personified by a cloaked man or skeleton carrying a scythe. She's been in three really terrible car accidents but has miraculously avoided the Grim Reaper.

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grim reaper

Fig. death. I think I have a few years to go yet before the grim reaper pays me a call.

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the Grim Reaper

The Grim Reaper is an imaginary character who represents death. He looks like a skeleton, wears a long, black cloak with a hood, and carries a scythe (= tool for cutting grass). By giving away assets while still alive, inheritance tax can be avoided entirely by the time the Grim Reaper calls. They were sitting around, waiting for the Grim Reaper.

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the Grim Reaper

a personification of death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe.

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Indicating its swarm abilities, exploit volume associated with Reaper showed a jump from 50,000 to 2.

United States : CYBERCRIMINALS implementing newer swarm-like capabilities

The Reaper drones are also being used to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assistance to help manned aircrafts conducting further strikes.

Britain uses drones in attack on IS

And with the obvious advantage of using reapers realized in Roxas, Vicente expects that the method of mechanized farming will spread throughout the Isabela-Cagayan region.

Reaper saves crops from Luis' wrath

After a Freedom of Information request by the Sunday People, the Ministry of Defence admitted 474 bombs and missiles have been fired from RAF Reapers in Afghanistan since 2008.

BRIT DRONES KILL '100S OF TALIBAN' Devastating support in SAS attacks

The RAF's newest Reaper drones have started operations in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced.

RAF's newest Reaper drones begin Afghanistan ops

The Green Reapers, however, qualified on having been awarded FIRST Robotics' Engineering Inspiration Award, the second-highest honor a team can earn.

Worcester teams headed to championship; Green Reapers, Team 190 to battle for world robotics title

Christopher Tabert, assigned to the VFA-101 Grim Reapers, flies the squadron's first local sortie on 14 August.

Grim reapers become lightning trainers

We will continue to operate the other Reapers from Creech though, in time, we will wind down operations there and bring people back to the UK," he added.

UK to 'double armed drone fleet' in Afghanistan

The star child AI is reportedly expected to reveal further details on the origin of the Reapers and their relation to their creators - the titular Leviathans.

Mass Effect 3: Leviathan DLC Gets New Launch Trailer [VIDEO]

In 1916, the company built 8,000 self-rake reapers for shipment to Russia.

Early manufacturer little known today

Drawn to locate the cabin where he and the others stayed Conner discovers a terror even more horrendous than the Reapers.

Valley of the Shadow

With the request for Reaper support intensifying comes the need for more Reapers, which increases the need for more students, which means more instructors--it affects the entire pipeline," the Reaper pilot said.

UAS: unseen, unheard, unstoppable

Today we have 27 combat air patrols of Predators and Reapers flying, and we're building towards 50," says Gen.

Reaper drones accomplishing traditional fighter jet missions

The demands of the Civil War would break up the prairie sod, put reapers to work and drop the hand-farming methods that had ruled agriculture for centuries.

Wallaces farmer celebrates 150 years serving Iowa readers

In ``Dead Like Me,'' reapers - who are ``undead'' - have lousy job restrictions and worse pay.