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assassination

[uh-sas-uh-ney-shuhn] / əˌsæs əˈneɪ ʃən /








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Wood's adaptation of The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher has just opened at the Liverpool Everyman theatre.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Assassination attempts can also soften the tenor of how the media covers presidents.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2026

But on the battlefield, she and the rest of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are warriors first, women inconsequentially.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

The documents made public on Thursday included many that have been previously released with redactions, said Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and author of “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.”

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

Assassination of Sforza, Duke of Milan; his son Gian Galeazzo Maria succeeds, under the regency of his mother, Bona.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)




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