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After the assassination of Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moïse, in 2021, left the country in the grip of gang violence, the team has trained and played its home games abroad, most recently in Curaçao.
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Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
That changed on March 2, when Hezbollah fired on Israel days after the US and Israel launched a war against Iran, vowing retaliation for the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
The show follows the comedy contretemps between Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln just a few days before the president’s assassination while watching a play (meta moments abound) at Ford’s Theatre.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
Her filing says the renaming violates federal statutes, breaches the board’s fiduciary duties and contradicts the trust Congress created after Kennedy’s assassination.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
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Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
That changed on March 2, when Hezbollah fired on Israel days after the US and Israel launched a war against Iran, vowing retaliation for the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
The show follows the comedy contretemps between Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln just a few days before the president’s assassination while watching a play (meta moments abound) at Ford’s Theatre.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
Her filing says the renaming violates federal statutes, breaches the board’s fiduciary duties and contradicts the trust Congress created after Kennedy’s assassination.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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Effective training requires understanding how their joints move and how their vision systems interpret surroundings, allowing trainers to refine control methods and improve task execution efficiency, reports PDO.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Apr. 2026
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An execution warrant has been signed for James Ernest Hitchcock, the man convicted of the 1976 rape and murder of Cindy Driggers.—
WPEC Staff,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Apr. 2026
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Ghaemi said that this language was reminiscent of the propaganda that helped fuel and justify other historic atrocities, such as the massacres in Myanmar or Rwanda.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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And Glocks have been the killing machine of choice in some of America’s most horrifying massacres, including Virginia Tech in 2007, which left 33 dead, including the gunman, and the shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill in California in November 2018, where a gunman killed 13 people, then himself.—
Simon Akam,
Vanity Fair,
2 Apr. 2026
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The slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Now amid the Greeley strike and other slaughter plant capacity reductions — including the closure of a major Tyson Foods’ plant in Nebraska — JBS and other companies are seeing profits increase, Martin said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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The massacre is just the latest bloodshed in a nation that has been left reeling by spiraling gang warfare for five years following the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The war has seen bloodshed throughout the Middle East, notably in Lebanon where Israeli forces are moving into the southern part of the country.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Sacramento County Parks Department says there's been a big increase in vandalism and destruction of the nature preserve due to unauthorized use of off-road bicycles and e-bikes.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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After the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is on her mom, her sisters and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on.—
Ashlee Conour,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Their annual festive holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of Christmas carnage.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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That’s not surprising considering the carnage in enterprise software stocks on AI disruption fears.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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