slaughtered

past tense of slaughter

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Recent Examples of slaughtered Although scarce documentation has left a wide range of estimates, as many as 2 million people are said to have been slaughtered in communal massacres during this exodus. Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 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 Up to 182,000 Kurds were slaughtered by Hussein’s forces, including 5,000 in one day in the infamous chemical attack on Halabja on March 16, 1988. Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 That year, the number of possible points had changed from two hundred to four hundred, and the newspapers reported that this test had slaughtered hordes of top students. Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026 The Trojans were the ones who foolishly dragged the horse inside their own city, went to sleep, and then got slaughtered when the Greek soldiers climbed out and opened the gates. Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026 The Greeks waited inside, and when the Trojan horse was brought inside the city walls, Odysseus and the Greeks snuck out, opened the gates of the city to the waiting Greek army, and slaughtered the Trojans to win the war. Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026 The one where a man, his mother, and his entire army are slaughtered by deceit? Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 July 2026
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Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • One actor who is less likely to return in a present-day capacity is Zayas, whose character, Victor Ochoa, was murdered in the season 1 finale.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
  • Dennis Rader murdered 10 people in the Wichita, Kansas, area between 1974 and 1991 while living what appeared to be a normal suburban life with his family.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • In the days after the Zacatecas slayings, a mayor was assassinated in his office in the central state of Morelos and a journalist was shot dead in Oaxaca, in the south.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
  • What happened Vance Boelter, the man who assassinated former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband at their home last summer, was sentenced on Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years in prison.
    Rafi Schwartz, TheWeek, 24 July 2026

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