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also euthanatize
as in to assassinate
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Recent Examples of euthanize
It's estimated that around 75 percent of municipal shelters euthanize pit bulls immediately upon arrival.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Your choices when trapping a live raccoon, according to ODNR, are to release it back onto your property, which likely won't solve the nuisance issue, or humanely euthanize it.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
Over the last few weeks, changes in behavior prompted a medical examination, and the subsequent decision to euthanize him.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Sohl had the zoo euthanize Chicago 57 and was present for the procedure.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Your choices when trapping a live raccoon, according to ODNR, are to release it back onto your property, which likely won't solve the nuisance issue, or humanely euthanize it.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
Over the last few weeks, changes in behavior prompted a medical examination, and the subsequent decision to euthanize him.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Sohl had the zoo euthanize Chicago 57 and was present for the procedure.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for euthanize
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The gun authorities say was used to assassinate Charlie Kirk was a Mauser 98, a common bolt-action rifle typically used for hunting.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative figure, was assassinated on Wednesday while speaking at a college campus in Utah.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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This opens a door for attackers to destabilize the browser or system its running on, to execute their own code.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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But nonprofits are sounding the alarm that HIV/AIDS projects have been terminated regardless.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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The now former employee, 23-year-old David Berriochoa, told the Idaho Statesman that he was terminated from the department’s Human Rights Commission on Friday morning after screenshots of one of his comments — and some of his personal information — were spread widely online.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 Sep. 2025
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Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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The home officially sold for $55 million in February 2023, after Wahlberg and his family decided to leave California and put down roots in Nevada in 2022.—
Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
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Everything seems to be going Laura’s way until one afternoon, after Daniel has been put down for his nap — that’s how the dialogue sounds — things get steamy with Howard.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Euthanize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/euthanize. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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