DISMANTLEMENTS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

dismantlements

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plural of dismantlement

as in effacements

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Global rise Amnesty International said in May that recorded executions worldwide rose 78% in 2025 to 2,707, the highest number documented by the rights group since 1981.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Iran has also continued its crackdown on the opposition; according to the United Nations, executions of political prisoners and dissidents are surging.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2026

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King managed to take the suffocating history of the Indian — the treaties, the massacres, the Hollywood caricatures — and turn it into something conversational, even funny.

— Tommy Orange, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Several massacres occurred in surrounding villages during that period.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

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The Johnson County District Court sentenced Robinson to death for the killings of two women and to life in prison in Kansas for the killing of a third.

— Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
Myung Jin Kim, 31, was wanted in connection with two killings, including a botched murder-for-hire plot in San Jose in 2016 and the killing of Kim’s friend in the parking lot of a CVS in Westminster two years later.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 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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