assassinate
Example Sentences
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“Here’s the next question: How many US presidents have been assassinated?”
From Literature
A man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison at a US court for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist highly critical of Tehran.
From Barron's
Something like this happened when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.
For decades, Cuban intelligence agents were Cold War stars, dismantling plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, recruiting senior U.S. government officials and protecting heads of state from Angola to Panama.
The centre was named in Kennedy's memory shortly after he was assassinated.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
