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Recent Examples of assassination
The tech industry’s public tone toward Mr. Trump abruptly shifted last year after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
But the room as currently constructed only dates to the early 1980s and the tenure of former press secretary James Brady, who was tragically shot during an assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
—Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2025
The last time the intelligence service had an outsider as head was in 1996, after the Shin Bet failed to prevent the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
Advocates for open government have long complained that the push for secrecy goes too far, by protecting information that could shine a light on government activities or matters of public interest, including about UFO sightings and a 60-year-old presidential assassination.
—David Klepper, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
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Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
But the room as currently constructed only dates to the early 1980s and the tenure of former press secretary James Brady, who was tragically shot during an assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
—Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2025
The last time the intelligence service had an outsider as head was in 1996, after the Shin Bet failed to prevent the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
Advocates for open government have long complained that the push for secrecy goes too far, by protecting information that could shine a light on government activities or matters of public interest, including about UFO sightings and a 60-year-old presidential assassination.
—David Klepper, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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Similar in packaging to an IGH but different in execution, continuously variable hubs function like the transmission in a midrange automobile.—
Chris Cona,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2025
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In a world where AI handles more of the planning, execution, and reporting, what’s left for humans? McKinsey reports that 38% of companies are already repurposing time saved by AI automation toward entirely new activities.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Trump got a temporary reprieve when the markets closed Friday at 4 p.m., but expect the massacre to resume this morning at 9:30 when the opening bell rings at the New York Stock Exchange.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
7 Apr. 2025
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In 2007, the British journalist David Litchfield wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that guests at a ball at Schloss Rechnitz were invited to shoot Jews for sport—a claim disputed by historians, who do not dispute that the massacre took place.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Namely: Who bears responsibility for the slaughter of the season?—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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That concept of freedom might be better exemplified by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, another Third World death cult that promised liberation and promoted slaughter — and that came with its own prominent apologists on American college campuses.—
Bret Stephens,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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But the bloodshed that unfolded March 6-10 in Latakia and Tartous represents a frightening escalation.—
Chris Massaro,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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Any bloodshed is almost always strictly in service of a joke.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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On March 28, an individual who had been missing since Helene's destruction was found and identified as 66-year-old Russell Wilber, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Wednesday.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2025
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The path of destruction stretched about 11 miles in the city outside Tulsa, and radar indicated a possible tornado had formed, according to a statement from city government.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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Her concern over both the animals and the big picture, not to mention her frustration and anger over what legacies of long-grift greed have wrought, offers the tiniest beacon of feeling in a film preoccupied with teeing up some frankly unimpressive carnage.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2025
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That image is a little haunting today, given the city’s recent wildfire carnage, but that emergent feeling adds to the haunted mood pervading The Studio.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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