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assassination

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








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But it also describes what happened in the U.S. in the 1960s, when protests over racism, the Vietnam War, and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. sometimes escalated into riots.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

But when Grace survives an assassination attempt, Todd is genuinely shaken.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

However, interior minister Kierwinski told TVP Info that "at this stage it is probably too early to claim ... that any foreign angle is possible" in the alleged assassination attempt.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

In an exclusive interview with the BBC from prison in Kyiv, facilitated by his lawyer, Vitalii Zhykovych has given his own account of the attempted assassination for the first time.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The evidence found in Booths hotel room included the mysterious “Sam” letter that seemed to predict the assassination.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Foma stressed that he only passed on intelligence to the Ukrainians, and his network did not carry out any assassinations themselves.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Vietnam, inner-city riots, and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had cast a pall over the Day-Glo optimism of the Love Generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Unlike so many retellings of famous assassinations, attempted or otherwise, Harron’s movie gets to the heart of its subject’s discontent without dwelling on dramatizations of Solanas’ fragile psyche.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

"It makes sense that Vahidi and Mojtaba Khamenei have not been seen because Tehran is still worried about Israeli assassinations."

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson


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