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Recent Examples of assassination
Over four days on the stand, John described the events leading up to the president’s assassination, when Moïse was shot a dozen times inside his bedroom and his wife, Martine, was seriously wounded.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
The name of a former first lady, Jackie Onassis survived the assassination of her husband, the President, and became an author and philanthropist.
—Taylor Grothe, Parents, 10 Apr. 2026
Elatr Khashoggi said in an interview from her Virginia home that Saudi Arabia had worked hard to repair its image since its ties to the September 11 World Trade Center bombing and her husband’s assassination, which the CIA concluded bin Salman had ordered.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
It's called assassination by adoration.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
The name of a former first lady, Jackie Onassis survived the assassination of her husband, the President, and became an author and philanthropist.
—Taylor Grothe, Parents, 10 Apr. 2026
Elatr Khashoggi said in an interview from her Virginia home that Saudi Arabia had worked hard to repair its image since its ties to the September 11 World Trade Center bombing and her husband’s assassination, which the CIA concluded bin Salman had ordered.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
It's called assassination by adoration.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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When Meituan, China’s dominant lifestyle super app that combines services similar to DoorDash, Yelp, and Groupon into a single platform, launched its Xiaomei AI agent in late 2025, executives internally described it not as a chatbot but as an orchestrator plus execution agent.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
17 Apr. 2026
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Netflix is betting that steady execution on its core business wins in a more crowded, consolidating market.—
Lillian Rizzo,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2026
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Hannah Abesidon, the daughter of 78-year-old Holocaust survivor Tibor Weitzen, one of the 15 people killed in the Bondi Beach massacre, recounted her experience of the attack in which her father was killed.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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In the film, a modern-day young female director, Mariana, played by Ioana Iacob, stages a reënactment of the massacre at a square in Bucharest.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The bill would require employers of more than 500 people in the livestock slaughter industry to provide reasonable access to restrooms.—
Dillon Thomas,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Each contract is for 40,000 pounds of live cattle, typically about 30 to 35 head of finished, slaughter-ready cattle.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2026
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Hours after the bloodshed, tour guide Marco Pavone, 47, brought a group of Italian tourists to Grand Central to look at the iconic subway station.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Authoritarianism, rule by force and revolutions with bloodshed are the norms.—
Stephen Mitchell,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2026
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The fighting has carved a path of destruction from agricultural towns near the border to Beirut, killing more than 2,000 people and displacing in excess of 1 million others, according to Lebanese authorities.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Washington wanted to test if the Iranian command, after seeing the destruction from six weeks of war and the killing of its Supreme Leader, would now bend to its will, experts said.—
Saeed Shah,
Time,
13 Apr. 2026
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Faces of Death isn’t a remake of the infamous 1978 exploitation landmark, a faux documentary that positioned itself as an anthology of actual carnage (though much of its disturbing footage was fake).—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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Every shark movie owes a debt to the sacred mother Jaws, but the thriller about bitey creatures spreading carnage and mayhem in bad weather that Thrash most resembles is Alexandre Aja’s superior nail-biter, Crawl.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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