assassinations

plural of assassination

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Noun
  • Smithers is the 14th inmate executed in Florida this year, a record that far eclispes the state's previous yearly high of eight executions, reached in 1984 and 2014.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Shockley is the first person executed in Missouri this year, with no other executions scheduled for the remainder of 2025.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Among the passengers was Qahtan Khalil, director of Syria’s air force intelligence, who was accused of being directly responsible for one of the bloodiest massacres of the country’s 13-year civil war.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Most people associate mass shootings with high-profile tragedies like the massacres at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015 or Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.
    James Densley, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
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