assassination

noun

Definition of assassinationnext
as in execution

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Recent Examples of assassination Concerns about voter intimidation motivate chaplains A Pew survey after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025 showed 85% of Americans, across political lines, believe political violence is on the rise. — Deepa Bharath, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 While traveling with then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981, White House press secretary James Brady was shot during an assassination attempt on the president. — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026 Starring Keri Russell as Ambassador Kate Wyler, the fourth installment of the Netflix political thriller opens with an assassination attempt on President Grace Penn (Allison Janney), who is shot in front of Windsor Castle. — Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2026 In the first episode, US President Grace Penn, played by Allison Janney, survives an assassination attempt outside Windsor Castle. — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for assassination
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
  1. execution
  2. massacre
  3. slaughter
  4. bloodshed
  5. destruction
  6. carnage
Noun
  • Sarah Kimani, Amnesty International’s media manager, told the AP in a January interview that the organization’s research documents summary executions, torture, abductions and rape by both government forces and the OLA.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The idea matters, but anyone can have an idea; what matters most is the execution of that idea.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of execution
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  • Under Burgum's 2025 campaign, signs, books, films and exhibits covering topics such as slavery, climate change and the massacre of Native Americans were flagged and removed from national parks and monuments nationwide.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • But outrage erupted as tour proceeds are set to fund the radical Palestinian Youth Movementâa extreme group that openly cheered Hamas's brutal October 7 massacre.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of massacre
Noun
  • By the time security forces regained control, entire communities had been devastated by the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Oct. 2026
  • By the third episode, murderous Jason begins to more prominently feature in episodes, and the gory deaths begin, as a swarm of innocent hippies ignore warnings and are drawn into the camp, like lambs to the slaughter.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of slaughter
Noun
  • These laws had accumulated piecemeal over generations, but American critics portrayed them as a single system with bloodshed at its center.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
  • After those twelve days, the bloodshed followed a deliberate design.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of bloodshed
Noun
  • About 90% of the city was flooded ​following the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam, according to the White House.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The suspect, 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano of Stafford, Virginia, has been charged with felony destruction of property, trespass with intent to damage, and felony injury to a monument, court records show.
    — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of destruction
Noun
  • And just a few months before giving this talk at the Filmart, Dad had recorded the carnage on both these fronts.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In the midst of the carnage, Herbst seemed to have hit the wall and lost his ability to hit the brakes.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of carnage

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