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Recent Examples of assassination
After Abe’s assassination in 2022 by a suspect who said he was motivated by a grudge against the church, an internal survey in the LDP later found that nearly half of the party’s members had links to it.
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Sanseito has also taken advantage of the political vacuum left by the tragic assassination of Abe in 2022 to attract young conservative voters.
—Mireya Solís, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
Like many other Russians that come into Baranov’s orbit, Berezovski is enjoying the fruits of perestroika, blurring the boundaries of business and politics that will later lead to several assassination attempts and his sudden, unexpected death at 67.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025
Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams as lawmen whose desert discovery leads down a path to information about the Kennedy assassination.
—Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Sanseito has also taken advantage of the political vacuum left by the tragic assassination of Abe in 2022 to attract young conservative voters.
—Mireya Solís, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
Like many other Russians that come into Baranov’s orbit, Berezovski is enjoying the fruits of perestroika, blurring the boundaries of business and politics that will later lead to several assassination attempts and his sudden, unexpected death at 67.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025
Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams as lawmen whose desert discovery leads down a path to information about the Kennedy assassination.
—Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
Noun
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This pamphlet was written after Paine narrowly escaped execution during the Terror.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Sep. 2025
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Fantastic execution by everyone by the whole team.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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The genocide allegation also rests on claims that Israel intentionally targeted civilians, but the study acknowledges civilian deaths while finding no evidence of a systematic policy of massacre.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The riots in the summer of 2024 had followed a stabbing massacre at a children's dance group in Southport by the teenage son of Rwandan immigrants.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Most effective however is Vanderbilt’s decision to stop the action and simply run the devastating real black-and-white film footage of the slaughter of Jews in the concentration camps.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Sep. 2025
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Hamas had brutally penetrated our southern border, embarking on the slaughter of civilians.—
Ron Scherf,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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In the meantime, the war rumbles on and diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed and the unfolding famine continue.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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The two-year war in Ethiopia's Tigray region left hundreds of thousands of people dead, more than one million still displaced and caused more than $20 billion in damage, until the agreement in November 2022 ended the bloodshed.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Critical wildlife habitat may be put at risk for alteration or wholesale destruction.—
Ryan Gellert,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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But tenants have little legal footing to stand on in combating that destruction.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Basically the carnage is all nonstop from this point on, a festival of killing in all kinds of nifty ways.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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Johnson’s dishonesty doesn’t even take into consideration the carnage from the homicides of yesteryear in the Windy City.—
Christopher Tremoglie,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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