reaper
noun
a machine for cutting standing grain; reaping machine.
reapers
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pluralof reaper.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Chanting and singing "free the Amazon", demonstrators in host city Belém have been carrying three giant coffins reading Oil, Coal and Gas flanked by two grim reapers.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
HH: That is so true, and so necessary for fundamental change, because we need new undertakers, new reapers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
In 1988, her father, a retired schoolteacher, got a big order for sheets — which usually depict festive skeletons, skulls, grim reapers or Catrinas — to decorate city government offices.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Memes and jokes featuring tombstones and grim reapers abounded.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
The hooded people turn and stare, in a wave, like a thousand grim reapers.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
