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Last Wednesday marked one week since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a popular conservative pundit whom South Park parodied earlier this season.
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Jessica Chastain expressed her disappointment with Apple’s decision to postpone the release of her upcoming limited series The Savant — about an undercover investigator who goes after online extremist groups — in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
His assassination was the latest act of political violence to draw widespread condemnation across the ideological spectrum.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
But Democrats have found sturdy ground resisting attempts to police their speech following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Jessica Chastain expressed her disappointment with Apple’s decision to postpone the release of her upcoming limited series The Savant — about an undercover investigator who goes after online extremist groups — in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
His assassination was the latest act of political violence to draw widespread condemnation across the ideological spectrum.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
But Democrats have found sturdy ground resisting attempts to police their speech following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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The summary execution of a Viet Cong lieutenant on the streets of Saigon by South Vietnam’s police chief during the 1968 Offensive was different.—
Time,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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Jacksonville State is 1‑2 and coming in hoping to stay clean in execution.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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Scott Starzyk booted a 49-yard field goal to bring Arkansas within 28-13, but the Fighting Irish completed their first-half massacre with two more touchdowns to drain the energy from the home crowd.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
27 Sep. 2025
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Amazingly, there are photographs of the massacre of hundreds of civilians at the village of My Lai.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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Warned by ornithologists that killing an insectivorous bird that also ate grain seeds would lead to a surge in locusts and caterpillars, Mao dismissed such arguments and urged mass slaughter.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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His provocative poem revolved around a cycle of bloodshed and called out Israel’s prime minister.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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If America now withdraws from its leadership role in diplomatic efforts to end the war, the bloodshed will only continue.—
Dmytro Razumkov,
Time,
16 Sep. 2025
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The data analysis also ignores injuries and property destruction in non-fatal attacks as measures of political violence.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Sep. 2025
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Later, there is caper-like comedy at a funeral home, which then sobers in a poignant tete-a-tete between Yun-ji and Min-yeong, astute revelations of the broken homes that shaped our young heroines, a climactic riot of slapstick destruction at an emergency school meeting and more.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
22 Sep. 2025
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Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
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So many Eagles contributed to the Super Bowl carnage, including Brown, who caught a touchdown pass late in the second quarter to put Philly up 24-0.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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