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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

The funeral of the convicted war criminal who oversaw the massacre, the Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, takes place on Monday after his death in prison on August 27.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Responding to the Schenectady massacre, forces raised in New York and New England staged an invasion of New France in the following summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Tusk was speaking on the anniversary of what Poland calls the "massacre" in Volyn, the then German-occupied part of Poland, now in Ukraine.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

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

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

“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

Soon after the August massacres, he was hit by a volley of paranoid hallucinations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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 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

They’ve debated the wisdom of punishing johns, deploying police drones and massacring rats.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2013

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