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Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams as lawmen whose desert discovery leads down a path to information about the Kennedy assassination.
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Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
The assassination strike was also confirmed by Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz on Saturday.
—Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
Millard Fillmore in 1850 assumed the presidency after Zachary Taylor died from illness, then Andrew Johnson famously became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 just days after the end of the Civil War.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
Riots following King’s assassination devastated Baltimore for two weeks.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
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Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
The assassination strike was also confirmed by Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz on Saturday.
—Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
Millard Fillmore in 1850 assumed the presidency after Zachary Taylor died from illness, then Andrew Johnson famously became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 just days after the end of the Civil War.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
Riots following King’s assassination devastated Baltimore for two weeks.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
Noun
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This pamphlet was written after Paine narrowly escaped execution during the Terror.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Sep. 2025
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Fantastic execution by everyone by the whole team.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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The genocide allegation also rests on claims that Israel intentionally targeted civilians, but the study acknowledges civilian deaths while finding no evidence of a systematic policy of massacre.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The riots in the summer of 2024 had followed a stabbing massacre at a children's dance group in Southport by the teenage son of Rwandan immigrants.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Those attacking us want to silence criticism of a mass slaughter.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
25 Aug. 2025
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There is urgent work to be done—to end the carnage in Gaza by imposing tangible costs on the perpetrators of the ongoing slaughter.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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In the meantime, the war rumbles on and diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed and the unfolding famine continue.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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The two-year war in Ethiopia's Tigray region left hundreds of thousands of people dead, more than one million still displaced and caused more than $20 billion in damage, until the agreement in November 2022 ended the bloodshed.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Initial offerings include an all-too-timely show about young immigrants as well as several productions that, as part of the Violins of Hope project, will use stringed instruments saved from destruction during the Holocaust.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Directed by a mix of Palestinian and Israeli activists, the production chronicles the destruction of a Palestinian community in Judaea and Samaria, or the West Bank, through Israeli military activity between 2019 and 2023.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Aug. 2025
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Tyler, lost in rage in his Hyde form, kills his mother in the ensuing carnage.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Many more were maimed, and almost all the carnage was the direct and intended result of Iran’s nascent Axis.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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