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Recent Examples of assassination
More from this past week • Kansas and Missouri politicians took to social media to respond to another apparent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
Forty-five years ago, President Ronald Reagan faced an assassination attempt at the same hotel.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
There was also a letter from Victoria to Mary Todd Lincoln following the assassination of her husband Abraham Lincoln.
—Mark Osborne, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
The dinner was cut short by gunshots in an apparent assassination attempt.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
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Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
Forty-five years ago, President Ronald Reagan faced an assassination attempt at the same hotel.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
There was also a letter from Victoria to Mary Todd Lincoln following the assassination of her husband Abraham Lincoln.
—Mark Osborne, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
The dinner was cut short by gunshots in an apparent assassination attempt.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
Noun
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The same-day executions by lethal injection came about an hour and a half apart on Thursday, April 30.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
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Iranian American actor Anthony Azizi says the continuing Middle East conflict has sparked rising persecution of Iran’s Baha’i minority, including its members being jailed and tortured under the threat of execution.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2026
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Infowars is facing liquidation because of the more than $1 billion in defamation lawsuit judgments Jones owes relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.—
Jim Vertuno,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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Valente began plotting the Brown University massacre as early as 2022, renting a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, to stash his weapons.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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But Serkis prefers his Trojan horse without the slaughter.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Peace journalism is a form of news reporting by which reporters frame their stories in ways that facilitate nonviolent responses to conflict, for example, by avoiding inflammatory words such as massacre, slaughter, or brutal.—
Karen McIntyre,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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Another technique for staging bloodshed might involve the candidate superficially wounding himself with a small razor blade, like professional wrestlers do, but that also presents challenges.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
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The bloodshed was met with a wave of concern by people in and outside of Mexico.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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One chapter closes, another opens The destruction of several Russian Kamov Ka-52s using drones doesn’t signal the end of the attack helicopter by any means.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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The pace of destruction was terrifying.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2026
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Trial takes place in downtown Sacramento just blocks from the carnage.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Their handiwork was on display in the lobby’s Museum of Bizarre Diskasters, an exhibition of silicon carnage.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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