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mowed (down)

verb

past tense of mow (down)

as in slaughtered

to kill on a large scale machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy

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to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall the crowd rushing in for the sale mowed down the poor clerks standing at the front entrance

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Per the title, Aang is the last surviving airbender after his pacifist brethren were slaughtered by a belligerent, expansionist Fire Nation.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2026
Deputies unlawfully confiscated Cedar, who was then slaughtered before his family ever had the chance to challenge the seizure in court.

— Vanessa Shakib, Oc Register, 23 July 2026

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Russia’s Defense Ministry said 379 drones were downed across 19 regions.

— Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 20 July 2026
The deaths span drone strikes in Kuwait, a missile attack on a Saudi air base, a refueling crash over Iraq, a helicopter downed in the Arabian Sea and missile defenses in Jordan.

— Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026

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In an effort to starve the Native Americans of the Great Plains, white settlers massacred many millions of North American buffalo between 1870 and 1890, piling the animals’ skulls into monstrous mounds reaching up to the sky.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
At least 100,000 Poles were massacred by the UPA.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026

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With this World Cup and its even bigger numbers, overwhelming media coverage and an American team that actually came with expectations, doors were knocked down.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
Contra Costa County firefighters knocked down a separate pair of residential fires in Pittsburg and Antioch on Friday and Saturday in which three people were hospitalized.

— Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 25 July 2026

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