EUTHANIZED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

euthanized

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variants also euthanatized

past tense of euthanize

as in assassinated

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The 48-year-old daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte is accused of corruption, bribery, misappropriating millions in government funds and threatening to have the current president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, assassinated.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 9 July 2026
Politician Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of assassinated former Burma Prime Minister Aung San, was placed under house arrest by Burma’s ruling junta.

— USA Today, USA Today, 7 July 2026

Definition of assassinated

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Of the 63 inmates executed in the United States in 2025 and so far this year, Florida has carried out 28 of them.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Channel your inner Sporty Spice with preppy tees featuring jersey numbers and rugby stripes, executed with fashionable precision by Versace, Nili Lotan, Staud, and TWP.

— Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 10 July 2026

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First, the animals whose skins would become parchment—typically sheep or calves—had to be slaughtered; a complete bible required the skins of around five hundred sheep.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
After Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 people on 10/7, including more than 40 Americans, the IDF is reactivating 45 military bases spread out between Israel and Jordan.

— Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of slaughtered

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The department said that, as a result of an internal investigation, Flores was effectively terminated from his role at the department on June 9.

— Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
New research from Omdia, commissioned by Apica and surveying 300 enterprise IT decision-makers, found that 59% of enterprises have already terminated or delayed an agentic AI deployment because observability costs have become unmanageable.

— Andi Mann, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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Monaco was the first place Djokovic put down roots outside of Serbia.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 July 2026
Customers for Peak who have put down a deposit include independent power providers Jupiter Power, Energy Vault and RWE Americas, who are connecting utilities, and increasingly data centers, with batteries.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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