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massacre

[mas-uh-ker] / ˈmæs ə kər /




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Rabin had condemned the massacre, and Israel had outlawed the Kahanist organizations by the time of the press conference, less than three weeks later.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Swift previously described how her record-breaking Eras Tour had narrowly "dodged a massacre situation".

From BBC May 28, 2026

Pratt returned to “The Alex Jones Show” in 2017, when the host was under fire for falsely portraying the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut as a hoax.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

The 31-year-old teaching assistant, who wears a headscarf, burst into tears in front of the security guard's booth -- the very spot where Abdullah gave his life to prevent a massacre.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

During the French and Indian War, he had botched one mission, witnessed a bloody massacre of British troops, and then been sidelined as the conflict moved away from Virginia.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

“There were massacres against Indigenous communities, they were forced to have one religion,” Sheinbaum said last week.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2026

The 57-year-old said he had been studying in Zurich when the war broke out, and had been driven to return to Kosovo after seeing massacres of ethnic Albanians in his country.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

The man in the tub is the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, a journalist and physician who had incited a series of judicial massacres.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

Some of its forces managed to rescue Alawites and it has put some of the ringleaders of the massacres on trial.

From BBC Dec. 8, 2025

And in Ayemenem, where once the loudest sound had been a musical bus horn, now whole wars, famines, picturesque massacres and Bill Clinton could be summoned up like servants.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The tension on “The French Chef” was about a massacred bûche de noël or whether that roast-chicken-to-come was being abused.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

During a session on Iran's record, Bahreini urged the UN's top rights body to instead discuss the Iranian cultural heritage under "indiscriminate" attack and "the innocent children massacred at their school desks".

From Barron's Mar. 16, 2026

We’re living in such a different time with social media now, but back then, thanks to these brave journalists, there were physical representations of civilians being massacred, innocent families.

From Salon May 20, 2024

Richard said: "To get even one goal was a surprise, that was a delight. I think I will wake up in a minute and we will be getting massacred 7-0."

From BBC Jan. 27, 2024

He knew he’d been massacred by the oncoming players, capsized and dumped humiliatingly on the ground.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

The H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu, has created an enduring crisis this year, massacring millions of birds and other wild animals, while stirring outbreaks in dairy farms across the U.S.

From Salon Oct. 10, 2024

She made it sound as if they were massacring endangered baby eagles.

From Slate Feb. 16, 2019

Not the Adams of Founding Father fame, but John Adams when he was a younger man, who in 1770 agreed to defend British soldiers accused of massacring Boston colonists.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2016

“Yes, Uber is bringing in new technology. Yes, it’s creating jobs. But at what cost? The cost of massacring others through unfair competition.”

From New York Times Jun. 3, 2015

The pretence for this measure, by which the British authorities attempted to justify it, was the false accusation that these men were concerting a scheme for burning the town and massacring the loyal inhabitants.

From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Dandridge, Danske




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