killings

plural of killing

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Noun
  • For retailers, drones could help protect profits, staff, and customers without the rising costs of hiring additional guards.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • For stocks to look less expensive, either their prices need to fall, or companies’ profits need to rise.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His victims varied, first a young family, then women of varying ages and economic backgrounds — sometimes going years between murders.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • According to the case's probable cause affidavit, which was reviewed by PEOPLE, Kohberger was caught after a sheath of the knife used in the murders was left at the scene in the bed where Mogen and Goncalves were found.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Chiefs opened the third quarter at their own 19-yard line, but Mahomes guided the offense with chunk gains to five different pass-catchers during an eight-play touchdown drive that took less than four minutes.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Spot silver surpassed the $50 mark for the first time last week before paring gains.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But almost from its start, industry has targeted the program, whose assessments can trigger toxic waste cleanups and expensive regulatory changes.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • As for quick cleanups around the house and in the car, pick up the Black and Decker Handheld Vacuum for just $35.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 8 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
Noun
  • These concerns stem from high levels of speculative investment—totaling hundreds of billions of dollars—in artificial intelligence with few manifest payoffs, as well as the market’s top-heavy structure, with significant value concentrated in a handful of AI-bullish tech stocks.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Missing power, uncertain payoffs — One missing piece of the puzzle is how OpenAI will power all of these chips.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, research has shown that stand your ground laws not only increase rates of violence and homicides in states that implement them, but are disproportionately used against people of color.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The president has claimed that Democratic state and local officials have failed to protect citizens and allowed violence to spiral out of control, even as San Francisco’s crime rates have fallen in recent months and the city is on track to see the fewest homicides since the 1950s.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The option of allowing members to sell their share, perhaps yielding windfalls of somewhere between €50,000- €100,000, was discussed internally but has now been taken off the table, sources say.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And so states that took the bait of new-tax windfalls find themselves in a hole.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Killings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killings. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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