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The ceremonies have been carefully choreographed and Mojtaba Khamenei's absence from the proceedings comes on a backdrop of fears that Israel may want to assassinate him as well.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

One North Korean commando, captured during a daring 1968 mission to assassinate the South Korean president in Seoul, recalls the confusion he felt when first encountering Christianity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

The Church Committee recommended, and Congress subsequently enacted, dozens of sweeping reforms to foreign intelligence collection activities, as well as restraints on future efforts by the U.S. government to assassinate people.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

Among those released so far are Spanish-Venezuelan rights activist Rocio San Miguel, arrested in 2024 over her purported role in an alleged plot to assassinate Maduro.

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026

He was convinced that if anyone tried to assassinate him, these two stocky morons would be powerless to prevent it, but he trusted that their presence would at least scare off spontaneous detraaors.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

With his pen, as Cellini with his dagger, he assassinates; his cynicism serves him for a coat of armour.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Fear is the dungeon of the mind, and superstition is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

The accident was wondrous strange: Did you neither know your assassinates, nor your deliverer?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Taking the poker from Mr. Smith's nerveless grasp, with three vicious thrusts he assassinates the already moribund fire.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 by Various

Error endlessly assassinates itself in a futile effort to escape its immortality.

From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Smith, Wallace

Marx was largely unknown outside of Colorado’s evangelical community before Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The ritual is a tribute to his country’s founding prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, who was assassinated in a Belgian-led plot in 1961.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

This family member, who wished to remain anonymous, told Brand he saw the painting hanging in the hallway of the granddaughter of Seyffardt, who was assassinated by Dutch resistance fighters in 1943.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

The faces of assassinated leaders, and those of new rulers, dominate the public space.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

He thought of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated in 1914.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

The ANC reflected on the pain caused by Hani's assassination and said the release was a reminder of "the bullet that pierced through our hearts, assassinating a father and comrade".

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024

“Send it to any other powerful figure with a platform and an audience who is considering whether they will take the chance to seek profit and fame by assassinating the moral character of ordinary people.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

A California review board on Wednesday denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee serving a life sentence for assassinating U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2023

One of the pieces of information revealed was a psychological evaluation of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested for assassinating John F. Kennedy.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022

Their mission was to strike a blow against Austria and the Hapsburg monarchy by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman