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Recent Examples of assassination
Tangent The decision comes months after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr implied the agency would take action against late night host Jimmy Kimmel after controversial comments following the assassination of conservative campus activist Charlie Kirk.
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Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
In the final act, the assassination plot collapses.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
Born in 1973 in Huancayo, Peru, and dividing his time between Huancayo and Berlin, Paucar uses performance, sculpture, and video to explore such topics as the assassination of Indigenous leaders, environmental threats, and surveillance technology.
—News Desk, Artforum, 21 Jan. 2026
Cangé’s demands, however, met with swift resistance from palace Secretary General Régine Haddad, who after Moïse’s assassination decided that no security coordinator would be allowed unfettered authority to appoint police personnel.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2026
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Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
In the final act, the assassination plot collapses.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
Born in 1973 in Huancayo, Peru, and dividing his time between Huancayo and Berlin, Paucar uses performance, sculpture, and video to explore such topics as the assassination of Indigenous leaders, environmental threats, and surveillance technology.
—News Desk, Artforum, 21 Jan. 2026
Cangé’s demands, however, met with swift resistance from palace Secretary General Régine Haddad, who after Moïse’s assassination decided that no security coordinator would be allowed unfettered authority to appoint police personnel.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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It had been used along with others to carry out mass executions in 1988 that reportedly killed at least 5,000 people.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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Walker's son, Ted Smith, 72, gave testimony at his father's posthumous exoneration, noting his mother never recovered after the execution.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Juries are often reluctant to convict law enforcement officers for inaction, as seen after the 2018 school massacre in Parkland, Fla.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Juries are often reluctant to convict law enforcement officers for inaction, as seen after the Parkland, Florida, school massacre in 2018.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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All the noisy cheer-leading from afar while slaughter reigns on the ground and nothing is done to stop it,,, seems a lot more like irresponsible armchairing than the op-ed.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Authorities invoked the phrase in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations and in 2024 during university campus protests against Israel’s slaughter in Gaza.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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Palestinians in Gaza who spoke to The Associated Press in recent weeks questioned whether moving into phase two of the ceasefire will improve conditions on the ground, pointing to ongoing bloodshed and challenges securing basic necessities.—
Julia Frankel,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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The bloodshed that followed was quick to kill that hope.—
Sarah Dean,
CNN Money,
23 Jan. 2026
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In June 2025, EOS demonstrated the destruction of a tank using a Rodeur 330 fitted with an inert warhead, controlled via FPV.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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While navigating Westport by car or on foot is chaotic right now, the goal is to prevent destruction in the future.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2026
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The kitchen knife used in to carry out the carnage was also there, according to authorities.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Only now, more than a week later, have details corroborating the scope of the carnage begun to emerge.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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