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verb

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Recent Examples of slaughter
Noun
On October 7, 2023, as a terrorist army invaded Israel intending to commit genocide against the Jewish people, many world leaders rightly condemned Hamas’ murder, rape, and slaughter of Israelis and foreign nationals. Ofir Akunis, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025 Matt Jones and Christina Long discuss whats next for Arkansas football after the Notre Dame slaughter on Saturday. Christina Long, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
Her time out in the world was brief; not long after her escape, she was surrounded by police cars and taken back to the plant, where she was scheduled to be slaughtered in a few days. Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025 Yet the gun industry continues to manufacture millions of new guns a year, and conservative right-wing lawmakers continue to pledge allegiance to guns and not to their constituents who are being slaughtered with them. Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slaughter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughter
Noun
  • Cell tower data placed his phone inside Israel near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the sites where Hamas and its supporters carried out a brutal massacre.
    Greg Norman , Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Bondi established the task force in February to spearhead the DOJ’s investigations into the perpetrators of the massacre.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In Germany, every day, one woman is being murdered by her husband, boyfriend, whatever.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In 2017, the Gardaí received a tip that the Kinahans had hired Imre Arakas, an Estonian hit man known as the Butcher, to murder James Gately, a member of the Hutch gang who lived in Belfast.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Slaughter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaughter. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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