Thesaurus results for MACHINE-GUNNED

machine-gunned

verb

past tense of machine-gun

as in killed

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Three people were killed after two helicopters collided midair near an airport in Oregon on Thursday afternoon, October 29, prompting an investigation by federal aviation authorities.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
The presidency has been vacant since President Jovenel Moïse was killed in 2021.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026

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Both the rocket and the camera were destroyed after crashing into the Earth at a speed of about 340 miles per hour.

— Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Cities outside Paris have been hit hard by the unrest, including Limoges where a fire nearly destroyed the 19th-century city hall.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026

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Earlier this summer, a gang had massacred at least 47 residents and kidnapped dozens more in the town of Kenscoff, on the main southern route out of the capital.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
The people in Silo 17 were brutally massacred by the members of Silo 1.

— Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026

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By chance, King was served a video of an auction in Bowie, Texas, where donkeys were being sold to be slaughtered for their hide, which is used to make a popular Chinese medicine called ejiao.

— Brayden Garcia October 28, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026
White militias destroyed their homes, torched their food supplies, and slaughtered them outright so routinely that a secondary economy of kidnappers sprang up to sell the survivors, children and adults alike, into servitude.

— Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

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In the postwar decades, humans seized ecosystems at breakneck speed—forests were felled, prairies plowed, wetlands drained.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026

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Thornburg butchered three of the people over seven days in September 2021 at the Mid City Inn in Euless.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
Then, in 1863, a collection of Missouri Confederate Bushwhackers led by William Quantrill rode into Lawrence and butchered 150 men and boys.

— Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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