as in massacred
to kill on a large scale
modern poultry farms slaughter a vast number of chickens every day
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Recent Examples of slaughtered
Apart from Ciri, who assumed the fake name Falka and spent the season with the group, the Rats are extremely dead — not just slaughtered by Leo Bonhart but decapitated with each of their heads sawed off and dumped into a barrel for preservation.
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Scott Meslow, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
His dishes include hand-slaughtered, halal chicken from the brand Crescent, which Ashraf calls the best of the best.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Giving up 1,700 terrorist hostages from Israel, basically create a potential pathway to statehood, because of an invasion two years ago that slaughtered Israelis, there's a lot here that still has to play out.
—NBC news, 5 Oct. 2025
In 2022, producers slaughtered more beef cows than ever before in the USDA recordkeeping.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
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
Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
At least 89 Christians have been slaughtered by jihadists in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Scott Meslow, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
His dishes include hand-slaughtered, halal chicken from the brand Crescent, which Ashraf calls the best of the best.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Giving up 1,700 terrorist hostages from Israel, basically create a potential pathway to statehood, because of an invasion two years ago that slaughtered Israelis, there's a lot here that still has to play out.
—NBC news, 5 Oct. 2025
In 2022, producers slaughtered more beef cows than ever before in the USDA recordkeeping.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
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
Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
At least 89 Christians have been slaughtered by jihadists in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughtered
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Two months later, more than 100 people were massacred by attackers in Yelwata, a largely Christian community in Benue state, also in the north-central, according to Amnesty International.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement There was also a growing feeling that a few more mistakes in Sweida and in coastal Latakia, where Syrian forces massacred Alawites in early March, and the world could turn against the new President.—
Hassan Hassan,
Time,
11 Oct. 2025
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Brady is also working with Kudos to adapt The Other Half, Charlotte Vassell’s novel about an ambitious young detective investigating the death of a posh socialite, found murdered on Hampstead Heath.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Paul had been charged with three felony counts, including boating under the influence, and was awaiting trial when he was murdered.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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Kirk was assassinated while at an event at the campus of Utah Valley University in September.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Kirk was assassinated last month at Utah Valley University.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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