assassination

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Recent Examples of assassination The July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse plunged the country into greater chaos. Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2025 The report claimed the attack was similar to an Israeli plan that led to the assassination of Hezbollah leader Seyed Hassan Nasrallah in September. Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025 Afterward, the agency faced a litany of criticisms and multiple formal investigations into its practices as many questioned how Crooks could come so close to carrying out the assassination successfully and ultimately charged the Secret Service with enabling the attack. Emily Mae Czachor july 13, CBS News, 13 July 2025 During this year’s Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, President Donald Trump was seen with a graded trading card that depicted the assassination attempt on him last year. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for assassination
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Noun
  • From hospitality to food execution, every Lindsey Food Group location operates at a high standard.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Defensive energy, effort, and most importantly, execution.
    John W. Davis, Oc Register, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Orlov also pointed her to Voit's location, leading to the hospital massacre and her abduction of Voit and Dr. Ochoa.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 July 2025
  • The season traces the brutal machinery of empire: propaganda, collaborators, betrayal and the looming massacre of civilians on Ghorman, a peaceful planet crushed for daring to protest.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • The first half begins in Poland, where seven-year-old Jakob Beer is the sole member of his Jewish family to survive the Nazis’ brutal slaughter.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • Jess remembers her first on-farm slaughter years ago when a female spooked and tore through the woods.
    Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • His striking work, Protest, depicts the bloodshed of Sri Lanka’s long civil war, using books that are charred or rendered illegible, often decorated with symbolic or figurative objects, like toy-soldier figurines marching across a soiled page.
    Thessaly La Force, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2025
  • So far, few other details have been provided regarding the boardwalk bloodshed.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • July 6, 2025: A large scale of destruction in Georgetown, downed trees show the aftermath of raging floodwaters in the South San Gabriel River.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • Distressed styles have also done incredibly well for the brand, with two of its top seasonal styles featuring varying degrees of abrasion, from light fading to medium destruction.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 July 2025
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  • Gregory, a horrified business owner who was arriving at work in Sunset Park when the battered BMW sped past him, said he was stunned by the carnage the BMW left behind.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
  • Voicework: Doogie Is Deadpool Deadpool VR nails the carnage, but the cherry on top is Deadpool himself.
    Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 15 June 2025

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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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