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Recent Examples of assassination
The contest was set up by a company called Fight, Fight, Fight, which was created in January and is named after Mr. Trump’s response to the assassination attempt against him in July.
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David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 22 May 2025
As one of his first actions back in the Oval Office, President Trump appointed Sean Curran—the head of his personal detail who was on stage with him during the Butler assassination attempt—as the new Secret Service director.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Highlighting this is likely the key reason why Zelensky suggested a personal meeting with Putin, who, according to Ukrainian and Western intelligence services, had previously ordered his assassination.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
After King’s assassination, the motel struggled, closed, then reemerged in 1991 as the National Civil Rights Museum, now widely praised.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
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David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 22 May 2025
As one of his first actions back in the Oval Office, President Trump appointed Sean Curran—the head of his personal detail who was on stage with him during the Butler assassination attempt—as the new Secret Service director.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Highlighting this is likely the key reason why Zelensky suggested a personal meeting with Putin, who, according to Ukrainian and Western intelligence services, had previously ordered his assassination.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
After King’s assassination, the motel struggled, closed, then reemerged in 1991 as the National Civil Rights Museum, now widely praised.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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Somewhere between good intentions and poor execution, things unraveled.—
Ashar Samdani,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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After the 1979 Revolution, Iran’s theocracy expanded the gruesome compound, which includes gallows and an execution yard.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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Breivik refers to Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a massacre in Norway in 2011 that targeted mostly teenagers at a camp.—
Evan Mealins,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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Israel-Palestine sharpened the divide: Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre re-traumatized a community still marked by the Shoah, even as images of Gazan suffering resonated with Black memories of state violence.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
24 May 2025
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Criticism over big business moves In the decades that followed, Ramaphosa went from a union leader to a corporate board member implicated in stoking the slaughter of striking workers.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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He was made to watch what Trump took to be evidence that the South African government was presiding over the slaughter of white Afrikaners.—
Jonny Steinberg,
Time,
22 May 2025
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And the world as a whole will experience more bloodshed, as both governments and separatists, unencumbered by global sanctions or normative restrictions, become more assertive.—
Ryan D. Griffiths,
Foreign Affairs,
20 May 2025
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Now, after all these years and all this bloodshed, Ukraine is once again being asked to accept the idea that Crimea belongs to Russia.—
Tetiana Kotelnykova,
The Atlantic,
25 Apr. 2025
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What makes that even scarier is that Florida’s road record — an .800 win percentage matched by only 17 other teams in the modern era — actually undersells the destruction.—
The Athletic NHL Staff,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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The book also examines the growing movement to grant legal rights to rivers as a way to prevent their destruction by corporations and governments, which are themselves protected by a vast array of legal rights.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
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Prom Queen ends in carnage when Megan realizes some of the other prom queen nominees, Christy Renault (Greenblatt), Melissa (Rubin) and Debbie (Ablack) have vanished.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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Structurally, this is a gigantic change, perhaps even revolutionary, though the driving itself is quintessentially Mario Kart: drifting elegance, power-up carnage, albeit now featuring up to 24 competitors, which means the on-road action is set to be even more frenzied.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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