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massacre

[mas-uh-ker] / ˈmæs ə kər /




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Grassroots and volunteer organizations have been founded for visiting the wounded in hospitals, caring for children who lost parents, helping rebuild war-affected areas and many other causes related to the massacre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

Later, the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, wrote that responsibility lay "first and foremost with those who planned and carried out the massacre".

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

But I realized he still was that man: He had survived not only a massacre, but a devastating body blow from a vehicle that had nearly taken his life.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

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

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

"Our history is full of massacres," psychologist Vered Atzmon Meshulam told me.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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

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

Why do people turn away from the massacred Jews?

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

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

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

There was a trenchant symbolism, too, in massacring a flea with Debrett; no other volume would have been heavy enough.

From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie


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