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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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The latter facilitate the execution of a design vision or ensure repetitive tasks where resources are rare.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
26 May 2025
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These included a shopping mall siege in 2013 that killed over 60, a bus hijacking in 2014 that killed 28, and a 2015 college massacre where 148 people—predominantly Christian students—were killed.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Israel on Thursday recovered the bodies of two hostages who were abducted in the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre that ignited the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.—
Bradford Betz , Yael Rotem-Kuriel,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
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His 2020 documentary Gunda, executive produced by Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, examined the life of a pig raising a farrow of piglets who are then seized and sent to slaughter.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
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At the moment, most American beef cannot be exported to Britain, in part because of the widespread practice of hormone treatment but also because of other regulations, including those covering the method of slaughter.—
Eshe Nelson,
New York Times,
15 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 10 Jun. 2025.
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