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Recent Examples of assassination
Unfolding three months after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the brazen abduction thrust 400 Mawozo into the global spotlight and showed how even foreigners, long isolated from Haiti’s vexing crises, were no longer immune from the violence.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
In the movie, Becket embarks on an assassination mission in Panama, and is assigned to partner with sharpshooter Richard Miller (Billy Zane).
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 10 May 2025
Tumi’s assassination is not just a singular tragedy.
—Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2025
The 2021 assassination of President Jovenal Moïse increased the country's political instability, leaving a power vacuum that has yet to be filled.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
In the movie, Becket embarks on an assassination mission in Panama, and is assigned to partner with sharpshooter Richard Miller (Billy Zane).
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 10 May 2025
Tumi’s assassination is not just a singular tragedy.
—Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2025
The 2021 assassination of President Jovenal Moïse increased the country's political instability, leaving a power vacuum that has yet to be filled.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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Death by a firing squad is an option in Idaho, although the state hasn’t carried out an execution since 2012.—
Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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The country last carried out executions in July 2016, including executing three foreign citizens, according to the outlet.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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Raphael is a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023 Nova Festival massacre in Israel, which was part of a surprise attack in which Hamas raiders murdered more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 men, women and children.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
13 May 2025
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India accused Pakistan of backing the militants who carried out the massacre, an allegation Islamabad denied.—
Rajesh Roy,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2025
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Because the world keeps beginning and ending the same way, with the slaughter of the innocent, with the massacre of the blameless, and there’s not a thing anyone can do.—
Li-Young Lee,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2025
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Even after the slaughter of the animal, there’s no restitution for its owner or the audience.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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New Delhi has pinned the bloodshed on Islamabad, which denies complicity and called for an independent investigation.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
9 May 2025
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But as the bloodshed mounted this week, local Druse leaders in Ashrafieh Sahnaya went the other way.—
Nanna Heitmann,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Now, some say artificial intelligence is ushering in a new era of creative destruction – but what exactly is being creatively destroyed, and what’s replacing it?—
Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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He and other firefighters returning from distress calls described an apocalyptic level of destruction.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
ProPublica,
19 May 2025
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As Williams clung to him the way a remora fish clings to the belly of a shark, the refs looked at the carnage — and immediately whistled Joker for a ticky-tack offensive foul.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
13 May 2025
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Why would Tesla's stock still be valued so highly in the midst of declining sales and reputational carnage?—
Aron Solomon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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