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Recent Examples of assassination
The first season had that sensational footage from the assassination attempt at Butler.
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Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
Israel's surprise attack on Tehran's nuclear program and targeted assassination of Iranian leadership on June 12 kicked off a sequence of events that has left hundreds reported killed and the United States at risk of being dragged further into the war.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 18 June 2025
After jetting back to the White House overnight, Trump suggested the U.S. is working together with Israel and could soon target Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for assassination if the conflict continues or spreads.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
The assassination attempt has stunned the nation, with many politicians describing it as the latest sign of how security has deteriorated in Colombia, where the government is struggling to control violence in rural and urban areas, despite a 2016 peace deal with the nation’s largest rebel group.
—Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
Israel's surprise attack on Tehran's nuclear program and targeted assassination of Iranian leadership on June 12 kicked off a sequence of events that has left hundreds reported killed and the United States at risk of being dragged further into the war.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 18 June 2025
After jetting back to the White House overnight, Trump suggested the U.S. is working together with Israel and could soon target Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for assassination if the conflict continues or spreads.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
The assassination attempt has stunned the nation, with many politicians describing it as the latest sign of how security has deteriorated in Colombia, where the government is struggling to control violence in rural and urban areas, despite a 2016 peace deal with the nation’s largest rebel group.
—Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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This execution and much of the rest of Materialists is disappointing, with the memory of the very high highs of Song's previous feature, Past Lives, doing it no favors.—
Aisha Harris,
NPR,
21 June 2025
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The logic was sound: own the infrastructure, capture margin, and secure Western chip sovereignty, but execution has been, at best, uneven.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming.—
Efrat Lachter , Nate Foy , Julia Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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But in the decade since the massacre, the families and others have been troubled by other deadly attacks against people because of their race, ethnicity or faith.—
Deborah Barfield Berry,
USA Today,
17 June 2025
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Third, in the face of such facts, a deportation of Afghans back to Afghanistan would be nothing short of a slaughter.—
David Peduto,
Baltimore Sun,
11 June 2025
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His cases there included the successful prosecution — in a 25-month trial — of a Croatian general who ordered the slaughter of Muslim noncombatants.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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The flag is split horizontally with the red arched into the blue, signifying the bloodshed of the enslaved and depicting a new horizon.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2025
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In a joint statement, Iran’s Nobel laureates Narges Mohammadi and Shirin Ebadi, filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, and civil society voices urged world leaders to halt uranium enrichment and end the bloodshed of innocents in Iran and Israel.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
17 June 2025
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Leave the innocents, the children, the ones who just want to live a simple life, out of the bombing and destruction.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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Europeans associate all things nuclear with destruction more than with deterrence.—
FLORENCE GAUB,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Yet for those that survived the carnage, this created opportunities.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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But the main disagreement with them is not in their correct dismissal of deregulation as the cause of the carnage, but in their ongoing support of government intervention, including bailouts.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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