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Eric Bana plays Avner, a Mossad operative sent to hunt down the Palestinians whom Israel holds responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

To survivors of the Srebrenica massacre, the death of former Bosnian Serb military leader and war criminal Ratko Mladic changes little about his legacy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

The Palestinian territory's Hamas-run interior ministry said the head of the local police station, Col Mohammed Marwan Salem, and several other officers were among those killed in what it condemned as a "massacre".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

If there had been a massacre the tinker would certainly have heard.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Nazhat Shameem Khan told the BBC the ICC had reached a "breakthrough" in its investigation into the massacres of civilians in the cities of el-Fasher and el-Geneina.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

No one really believes Mr. Museveni is a Good Guy, however much he may have opened up Uganda to—gasp!—“international capital,” a worse sin, in Mr. Mamdani’s eyes, than any of the massacres Amin committed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

She had never told him about Olanna’s experience during the massacres.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

That included claims it violates multiple environmental laws and would destroy lands tribal members consider sacred because they say dozens of their ancestors were massacred there in 1865.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

“Have you ever seen such a thing, Cullen?” my mom asked me as she massacred Caleb Cooper’s seven-year-old head of hair.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

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

"You've got to love that" and massacring of the English language.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018

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

Latterly there have been all sorts of mysterious reports about the Boers having got behind Roberts, re-taken Kroonstadt and cut the railway, massacring various regiments, whose names change hourly.

From In the Ranks of the C.I.V. by Erskine Childers