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machine-gunned

verb

past tense of machine-gun

as in killed

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At the conference on Thursday, police did not name the victims, the shooter, or the bystander who killed him.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
The subsequent airstrike killed him and, according to independent estimates, at least 125 other people.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of killed

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Firefighters battling a blaze that destroyed six homes in south Orange County can expect a bit of reprieve Saturday afternoon as Santa Ana winds begin to die down.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Its owners, a family of three, left for a cruise before the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel destroyed their property.

— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026

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Earlier this summer, a gang had massacred at least 47 residents and kidnapped dozens more in the town of Kenscoff, on the main southern route out of the capital.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
The people in Silo 17 were brutally massacred by the members of Silo 1.

— Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of massacred

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Fifteen people were slaughtered, including relatives of Maram, and some of her neighbors.

— Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2026
Already, in South Africa, an ostrich flock that survives bird flu would only be quarantined and rigorously tested for reinfection, not slaughtered.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of slaughtered

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After an alert went out early on Friday, two coastguard boats and a navy helicopter were dispatched to the area and other nearby ships were rerouted.

— CBS News, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
People in Crystal Lake are constantly being dispatched in ways that offer the most shredded flesh, spurting blood and oozing viscera possible.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of dispatched

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Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of felled

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Then, in 1863, a collection of Missouri Confederate Bushwhackers led by William Quantrill rode into Lawrence and butchered 150 men and boys.

— Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Cut marks and scrapes made by flint knives at consistent locations on the bones indicate local humans butchered many of them for meals.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026

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