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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

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

Bush’s phone calls during the Tiananmen Square massacre.

From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026

And my family had never talked about the massacre, even among ourselves.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Its leaders rejected emigration to Palestine and, after the pogroms and massacres that accompanied Russia’s collapse, went into exile or were crushed by the Soviets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

According to the UN, around 115,000 people have entered Lebanon from Syria since the fall of Assad, many of them since the sectarian massacres that targeted the Alawite minority on the Syrian coast in March.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 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

He gestures to complex problems facing the new country but focuses on the 1966 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

Over the last two decades, North American bats have been devastated by a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome that has massacred millions of the flying mammals.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 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

‘Clarisse, I get your point. But have you studied Roman engineering? Their temporary camp is better defended than Camp Half-Blood. Attack them at their base, and we’d be massacred.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

But our current situation — the one that is becoming increasingly harder to ignore — really began about three years ago, when bird flu began spreading rapidly in wild birds, massacring millions of them.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2024

Less than 10 years ago, the United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zayed, spoke up against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria for massacring civilians.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

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

"Still, after all your training, it is sad to see him massacring his faithful mentor," said the Honourable John Ruffin.

From Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl by Jepson, Edgar