EUTHANIZING Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

euthanizing

verb

variants also euthanatizing

present participle of euthanize

as in assassinating

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Attorneys at a key hearing for the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk sparred over whether a police interview should be made public, with Kirk’s family attorney saying that sealing it will only sow distrust in the justice system.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 9 July 2026
The 23-year-old man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University will be in court this week for the most substantial hearing so far in his murder case.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026

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An enhanced asynchronous inference mechanism allows robots to predict future states while executing actions and continuously update decisions using real-world observations.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Fenton brought along his up-tempo, no-huddle offense from Los Alamitos, and quarterbacks Ezrah Brown and Reagan Toki were executing it in midseason form.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026

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This year, the Tour de France Femmes starts off in Lausanne, Switzerland, before heading to Dijon and travelling down toward the Mediterranean, then terminating in Nice.

— Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026
Such data irregularities fit into a broader pattern of disrupting long-standing agency activities – for example, abruptly terminating grants to state and local health departments and disrupting health messaging on vaccines.

— John Kubale, The Conversation, 8 July 2026

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Disease had significantly weakened Tenochtitlán’s ability to withstand Cortés’s siege, and the Europeans eventually wore the Aztec warriors down and broke through the city’s defenses, slaughtering the Aztecs and destroying the city.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 June 2026
Later on, plundering Barbary pirates raided Mallorca, looting possessions, slaughtering inhabitants and capturing others for the slave trade.

— Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026

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Humanity could be years away from seeing astronauts not just landing on the moon, but putting down roots by living and working on the lunar surface.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 July 2026
The next day on Tuesday, June 30, workers were seen putting down red carpet at Madison Square Garden, per a video posted by Deuxmoi.

— Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026

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