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assassinations

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plural of assassination

as in executions

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California’s next governor will determine whether to keep or toss Gavin Newsom’s halt on executions.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
And the American Civil Liberties Union discovered that the Federal Bureau of Prisons had spent millions on staffing needed to carry out executions.

— Max Blau, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2026

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But aid workers in Haiti say that large outbreaks of gang violence, particularly massacres like the one in Kenscoff, a community in the hills above Port-au-Prince, are not uncommon.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
In his reports, there is both disbelief and bitter acceptance of the massacres of Ukraine’s Jewish population.

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

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By the eighth century, Charlemagne was organizing mass slaughters of the animal while the Church, wary of its earlier status as living god, denounced the bear as lewd, noting its disturbing resemblance to humans.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
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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