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For example, the Jackal has still not been paid for his successful assassination, and his wife has disappeared, leaving Redmayne to look for her and his family.
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
Israel’s intelligence capabilities inside Iran are understood to be vast and Israeli intelligence has carried out multiple successful assassinations inside Iran.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
On social media, people began calling the shooting an assassination before anything close to a motive was established.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
The Gwangju uprising Before Tuesday, martial law was last declared in South Korea by Chun Doo-hwan, a general who rose to power in a coup following the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung-hee — a former general who had also declared martial law while in power to crack down on dissent.
—Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
Israel’s intelligence capabilities inside Iran are understood to be vast and Israeli intelligence has carried out multiple successful assassinations inside Iran.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
On social media, people began calling the shooting an assassination before anything close to a motive was established.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
The Gwangju uprising Before Tuesday, martial law was last declared in South Korea by Chun Doo-hwan, a general who rose to power in a coup following the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung-hee — a former general who had also declared martial law while in power to crack down on dissent.
—Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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Leaders who excel at execution combine discipline with flexibility.Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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In other states, media witnesses generally act as neutral public monitors, reporting details of an execution to the public.Dakin Andone, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Last month, The Onion won the bidding for Infowars, which has been forced to sell its assets after a $1.4 billion defamation judgment in favor of the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre.Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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Jones’s site was put up for sale as part of his bankruptcy case in the wake of the nearly $1.5 billion that courts ordered Jones to pay families tied to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings for falsely calling the massacre a hoax.Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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The mass slaughter is traced back to Bhagwan Chowdhary, the founder of the Gadhimai temple in Bariyarpur, Bara District.Chad de Guzman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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As Christmas approaches, and strange occurrences like the mass slaughter of reindeer start to transpire, Pietari and those around him discover the boy is only half-right and the real trouble is even deeper and stranger.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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But amid the bloodshed, there was also a sense of closure for this chaotic and influential Montana family.William Earl, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Both involved some actual bloodshed, which probably accounts for their relative fame.Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Looting and destruction Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act after a generation of lobbying by educators and scientists who wanted to protect sites from commercial artifact looting and haphazard collecting by individuals.Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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The destruction comes as Russia continued to advance into Ukrainian territory, while taking heavy casualties.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
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The urgency and depth of the national crisis compelled them to create narratives addressing the intimate human consequences of the unspeakable carnage around them.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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One casualty of this carnage is Lawtey’s Rob, another character who comes to see the light as he’s betrayed by Yasmin (whom he’s had a crush on since Season 1).Carole Horst, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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