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slain

adjective as in slaughtered

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Now, with Kirk slain, nothing appears to be stopping Fuentes from taking up that mantle.

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Insisting Israel wait for the return of the slain hostages isn’t working.

The second episode drew criticism for its parody of Charlie Kirk, the slain political influencer, despite the episode airing weeks before his death.

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This victim has also been slain by a stone.

“We want to make sure that the bureaucracy can’t reconstitute itself later in future administrations,” he said in April in a podcast with Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was slain on Sept. 10.

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