assassinations

plural of assassination

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Noun
  • For spring, the Docksides and Campsides models were reinterpreted in leather executions by historic American tannery Horween Leather Company.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 21 June 2026
  • Since then, neither a bipartisan push to ban the practice nor a competing effort to bring nitrogen gas executions to Ohio has gone anywhere.
    CBS News, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • The lands historically now known as Ukraine were occupied by the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth for centuries, and many Ukrainians view their nation’s genesis as the rebellion of Cossack Hetman Boghdan Khmelnitsky against the commonwealth, an event characterized by massacres of Poles and Jews.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
  • Tens of thousands of Sudanese civilians were killed by the RSF in massacres after the capture of the Sudanese city of El Fasher alone last year.
    Kate Bartlett, NPR, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
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