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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine-gunned
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Six people were on board the plane, including one person who was killed in the incident, police said.
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Days before the five-year anniversary of the 2021 building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, the federal government has published findings that determined the structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium started failing about three weeks before the catastrophe.
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The second inferno killed 12 people, destroyed 6,500 structures across the Palisades and Malibu and cost billions in damage and insurance claims.
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In Paradise, California, a community destroyed by wildfire adopted the ‘Wildfire Prepared Home Standard’ as its mandatory rebuilding benchmark.
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At least 100,000 Poles were massacred by the UPA.
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Her great-grandparents, innkeepers in modern-day Belarus, were massacred by the Nazis along with most of their town.
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Some 2 million people, nearly a quarter of the population, were slaughtered or starved to death.
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Muyuan Foods Group alone sold nearly 78 million hogs and slaughtered more than 28 million of them in 2025, according to the company.
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Police officers created a homicide scenario where they were dispatched to the area of 35th Avenue and Jefferson Street for reports of a fight with multiple subjects and shots fired.
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The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Rapid Deployment Force and the Broward Sheriff’s Office Quick Response team are both able to be dispatched if necessary.
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Pumphrey was felled there by a British musket ball, his body left to lie in a shallow grave in South Carolina.
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Now, 10 years to the day after the Brexit vote and with six prime ministers having been felled by economic and political turbulence, the country once again looks to a new leader — and back to the crucible that helped set it on this torrid journey.
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The plague victims likely hunted, skinned and butchered marmots for their meat and fur, which would have exposed members of the community to the bacteria, Macleod said.
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The deer must be completely butchered and de-boned before it can be brought into the state.
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“Machine-gunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine-gunned. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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