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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassinations
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The Idaho Department of Correction this week released new protocols detailing how executions will be carried out at the state’s maximum security prison south of Boise.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
12 June 2026 -
During the previous Alabama nitrogen executions, the inmates shook, pulled at the restraints and exhibited labored breathing.—
Kim Chandler,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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Tens of thousands of Sudanese civilians were killed by the RSF in massacres after the capture of the Sudanese city of El Fasher alone last year.—
Kate Bartlett,
NPR,
9 June 2026
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Most significantly, Lepore found that readers wanted to know the full story of their country—the progress and the revanchism, the beauty and the ugliness, the racial massacres and the Indian New Deal.—
Yoni Appelbaum,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
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Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Assassinations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassinations. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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