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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine-gunned
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Evergreen High School is located about 20 miles from Columbine High School, the site of an infamous 1999 mass shooting that killed 12 students and a teacher.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025 -
Conservative commentator Will Cain observed a moment of silence on his Fox News show after a gunman shot and killed Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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Alternatively, a star being ripped apart in TDE could produce a day-long GRB, but this scenario fails to replicate other properties of the GRB 250702B, an explosion that would require a very unusual star being destroyed by an even stranger black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Hadid was commissioned to design it for a fire brigade on the Vitra Campus after a major 1981 fire destroyed most of the complex, which originally consisted of factory buildings but is now a collection of contemporary design and architecture showrooms.—
Mae Hamilton,
AFAR Media,
9 Sep. 2025
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Principals told to stop calling police chief There was so much chaos in the minutes after the gunman entered the classrooms and massacred the children and teachers inside that school police chief Arredondo called the district’s communication chief for help.—
Matthew J. Friedman,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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Finally, the 2025 list massacred the stable of eligible plug-in hybrids.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
26 Aug. 2025
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The Great War, however, turned death into something sudden, cruel and unknowable, as young men—often barely into adulthood—were slaughtered on the front line, their deaths reported to their families days or weeks later.—
Alice Vernon
September 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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That’s why he got slaughtered in the election.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Sep. 2025
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Between them, Sinner and Alcaraz have dispatched their only serious rival in three straight majors, largely making every other match at these tournaments feel almost immaterial.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The South Korean government launched an emergency response team on Friday, with consulate officials dispatched to the site of the raid.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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The previous administration was felled by the emotional gap between the actual economy (pretty good) and how people felt about it (pretty bad).—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Hedda, so determined to be mistress of her own emotions, is felled.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
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There were also rumors of things going missing from farm sheds, and animals being butchered for their meat overnight in farmers’ paddocks.—
Todd Symons,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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That is to say, more chickens are bred and butchered each year than there are alive at this very moment in time.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Machine-gunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine-gunned. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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