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assassinations

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plural of assassination

as in executions

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The first consists of expert demonstrations, which document reference task executions carried out by human operators in real-world environments.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
The executions include that of Christa Pike, the first woman set to be put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

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King managed to take the suffocating history of the Indian — the treaties, the massacres, the Hollywood caricatures — and turn it into something conversational, even funny.

— Tommy Orange, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Several massacres occurred in surrounding villages during that period.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

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By the eighth century, Charlemagne was organizing mass slaughters of the animal while the Church, wary of its earlier status as living god, denounced the bear as lewd, noting its disturbing resemblance to humans.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025

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