killings

plural of killing

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • Microsoft’s revenues/profits flow down through its business partners.
    Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Rights to participate in management or share in profits.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the laconic tones of a police report, Ibargüengoitia investigates the murders and their motives, the society and the profession - the oldest of all, but no less mysterious for that - which precipitated them.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The 42-year-old has a rap sheet spanning three decades, including two armed robberies in Manhattan just weeks before the murders, FOX 5 reported.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Buoyed by those gains, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite secured new closing highs, with the former exceeding the 6,600 level for the first time.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • For franchisors with disciplined operations, strong unit economics, and clear development pipelines, the coming months represent an opportunity to consolidate gains, lock in growth, and prepare for what could be a more favorable interest rate environment heading into 2026.
    Gary Occhiogrosso, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Volunteers will be taking part in food and clothing drives, park and neighborhood cleanups, blood banks and other community events.
    Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Emphasizing creativity, Maria Lee said kids chose a variety of ways to serve from lemonade stands contributing to Texas flood victims, flower deliveries to elderly shut-ins, park cleanups and adding flags to headstones at veterans cemeteries.
    Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The platform was then embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and accused of allowing misinformation that skewed elections in the US and other western countries, and led to massacres in places like Myanmar.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The lack of fighting in urban centers prevented Hamas from taking the initiative, often leaving it a passive bystander to the massacres of Palestinians.
    Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Microcredentials, badges, job certificates, and other alternatives will succeed only if their labor market payoffs are transparent.
    Bruno V. Manno, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Budak defines six types of everyday courage and their associated risks, actions and payoffs.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The department said in its mid-year crime report overall crime was down 8% year-over-year in the city, including a 29% drop in homicides.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Arguments are a key contributor to at least 42 homicides in Kansas City this year, according to police data.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Unfortunately, in the United States, common sense often takes a back seat, and our litigation system is abused to turn personal injuries into financial windfalls.
    Carrie Lukas, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • These foundations will wield tremendous power, especially as their windfalls contrast with catastrophic cuts to the social safety net like those in the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Killings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killings. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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