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Recent Examples of bloodshed
While pinning blame on Cambodia for the bloodshed, Anutin spoke about the imperative to harmonize regional maps to permanently rectify the dispute.
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
Trump has long promised to end the bloodshed in Eastern Europe, vowing to end the war quickly while on the 2024 campaign trail.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2026
The road to equality for all Americans hasn't come without sacrifice, bloodshed and strife.
—Elisha Brown, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
His house in Minneapolis sits between two neighborhoods stained by bloodshed where Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti were killed by federal immigration officers during a surge of immigration enforcement that has ignited outrage and protests across the country.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 2 Feb. 2026
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
Trump has long promised to end the bloodshed in Eastern Europe, vowing to end the war quickly while on the 2024 campaign trail.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2026
The road to equality for all Americans hasn't come without sacrifice, bloodshed and strife.
—Elisha Brown, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
His house in Minneapolis sits between two neighborhoods stained by bloodshed where Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti were killed by federal immigration officers during a surge of immigration enforcement that has ignited outrage and protests across the country.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 2 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodshed
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Colt Gray, now 16, has been indicted on 55 felony counts, including four counts of malice murder, according to court documents.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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Now, as a reporter, Camille returns to her hometown to cover an unsolved murder while staying in her childhood home.—
Amanda Favazza,
Southern Living,
15 Feb. 2026
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Bitcoin has fallen deeper into the dumps this week, briefly breaking below $73,000, and there could be even more crypto carnage ahead, according to several Wall Street shops.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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Activists offer new death toll While the protests have been halted for weeks after the crackdown, information trickling out of Iran via Starlink satellite dishes is reaching activists, who have been trying to tally the carnage.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The sport of wrestling, a national pastime in Iran, has been hit hard by the Iranian regime’s slaughter of protesters seeking to end 47 years of Islamist totalitarian rule in the country.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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The animal rights activist saved two cows from slaughter, Liberty and Indigo, in 2020.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The teenager’s accounts were littered with references to white supremacy, antisemitism and violence, with a particular focus on past mass shootings, including the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
4 Feb. 2026
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The regime is resorting to massacres to suppress the unrest.—
Shahrnush Parsipur,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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The operation also resulted in the killing of two US citizens, the deployment of aggressive tactics by armed, masked DHS agents, and a soaring sense of trepidation permeating Minnesota’s immigrant communities.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Under Belgian law, circumcision is supposed to be performed by medical professionals, with the country also recently prohibiting Jewish kosher slaughter, or shechita, which requires animals to be conscious at the time of their killing.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Feb. 2026
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William Stevenson, a Delaware man who was briefly married to Biden decades ago, is facing a count of first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of his wife, Linda Stevenson.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2026
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At the time of his slaying, family said Graves had worked for the agency and run the same neighborhood route for about three years.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
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The father of the teenager who allegedly killed four people at his Georgia high school in 2024 is set to stand trial on murder and manslaughter charges Monday in the latest case testing the limits of who is responsible for a school shooting.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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The father accused of giving his son an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present that prosecutors say the teenager used in a 2024 mass shooting at a Georgia high school went on trial on Monday, facing murder and manslaughter charges stemming from the shooting.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2026
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The Chatham County Police Department is investigating the crash and has charged Vasquez Lopez with reckless driving, driving without a valid license, failure to obey a traffic control device, and first-degree homicide by vehicle, the agency shared online.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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The Hanover Police Department has placed Thomas Hayes, 36, on leave, as the officer faces charges of motor vehicle homicide and leaving the scene of an accident following personal injury or death.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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