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Recent Examples of killings
The Johnson County District Court sentenced Robinson to death for the killings of two women and to life in prison in Kansas for the killing of a third.
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Alexa Newsom,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Myung Jin Kim, 31, was wanted in connection with two killings, including a botched murder-for-hire plot in San Jose in 2016 and the killing of Kim’s friend in the parking lot of a CVS in Westminster two years later.
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Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
Goodson's death provoked public outrage in Ohio as the killings of Black people by White officers increased demands for police reform following the killing of Floyd by a White police officer in Minneapolis.
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CBS News,
8 May 2026
Goodson’s death provoked public outrage in Ohio as the killings of Black people by white officers increased demands for police reform following the killing of Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
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ABC News,
7 May 2026
The crisis caused by Minneapolis killings Senators returned to work this week dealing with the fallout from the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers, as well as the killing of Renee Good in the city weeks earlier.
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Joey Cappelletti,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
Some of these killings infuriated local residents, many of whom believe killing bears should be the last resort.
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Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
25 Oct. 2025
Alexa Newsom,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Myung Jin Kim, 31, was wanted in connection with two killings, including a botched murder-for-hire plot in San Jose in 2016 and the killing of Kim’s friend in the parking lot of a CVS in Westminster two years later.
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Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
Goodson's death provoked public outrage in Ohio as the killings of Black people by White officers increased demands for police reform following the killing of Floyd by a White police officer in Minneapolis.
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CBS News,
8 May 2026
Goodson’s death provoked public outrage in Ohio as the killings of Black people by white officers increased demands for police reform following the killing of Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
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ABC News,
7 May 2026
The crisis caused by Minneapolis killings Senators returned to work this week dealing with the fallout from the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers, as well as the killing of Renee Good in the city weeks earlier.
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Joey Cappelletti,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
Some of these killings infuriated local residents, many of whom believe killing bears should be the last resort.
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Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for killings
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The federal government and states have begun investigating pricing strategies that companies report have led to higher profits.
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Wall Street is increasingly punishing Big Tech companies for spending on AI without profits to justify it.
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Their son Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested later that evening for their murders.
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Maurice Pierce was then wired up and sent to speak with Welborn, but investigators ultimately determined that Welborn and the others knew nothing about the murders, and no charges were filed at that time.
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The indexes are sitting on healthy gains for the year despite a slight pullback in June.
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The agreement ends weeks of lobbying by outside interests and negotiations among lawmakers and the governor at the state Capitol about how to handle a surge of income tax collected on stock market gains related to artificial intelligence.
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The issue has been particularly salient for low-income families living near fields of coca, the shrub used to make cocaine, as human rights organizations documented more than 50 massacres in Colombia just this year.
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The massacres, which resulted in the deaths of roughly 100,000 Polish civilians, are officially classified as a genocide by Warsaw, a characterization Kyiv denies.
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The money is part of more than $15 million that the Lamont Administration awarded to a dozen communities with large brownfields cleanups.
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For quick cleanups that don't call for a full-size vacuum, this handheld mode that’s 76 percent off right now will come in handy.
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The number of homicides in Sacramento County in 2025 fell to the lowest level in decades, according to Sacramento County sheriff’s officials.
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According to the report, the city has recorded 50 homicides so far this year.
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There would be many other payoffs for fans who’d hungered for years to see America’s top soccer league come to San Diego.
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But it's been noticeable through the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup payoffs that Makar has been dealing with lingering injury.
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Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters dropped by more than 66% in the time frame, with four reports in 2025 compared to 12 a year earlier.
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But some violent crimes have fallen significantly—homicides by 39%, human trafficking offenses by 26%, and vehicular manslaughters by 75%.
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“Killings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killings. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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