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massacre

[mas-uh-ker] / ˈmæs ə kər /




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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

"For us, the main thing is that he was convicted and that he was serving his sentence," said Abdurahmanovic, whose brother went missing during the massacre and has never been found.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Intricate sculptural groups depict the Annunciation, the birth of Jesus, the Adoration of the Magi and the shepherds, Herod’s massacre of the innocents, the flight into Egypt, Jesus preaching at the temple, and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

He went through the small square by the station and he saw the fritter stands piled one on top of the other and he could find no trace of the massacre.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

European officials and their counterparts in both Poland and Ukraine warn that the rift over the World War II massacres serves neither side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

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

And then there’s bird flu, which isn’t just infecting dairy cows and poultry lately, but has also massacred millions of wild birds.

From Salon ● Oct. 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

“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 Sri Lankan army spokesman, Brigadier Waruna Gamage rejects allegations that security forces buried civilians after massacring them.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Most of these infections occur among farmworkers who come into contact with dairy cows and poultry, which the virus is infecting and massacring in massive numbers.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 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

From Carrie massacring a whole prom with telekinesis to Sabrina Spellman’s Big Witch Energy, we must both respect teen emotions and fear them at the same time.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020

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


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