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killing

noun as in murder

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Taylor’s killing has raised public attention about no-knock warrants and about search warrants in general.

From Vox

Saltwater washed into an area that had been freshwater only, killing 4,000 acres of vegetation — an area equal to more than 3,000 football fields.

Trump falsely suggests he had something to do with the decision to send the National Guard into Minneapolis amid violence and protests of the killing of George Floyd in police custody.

Adegbile had argued in a brief that Mumia Abu-Jamal, a death-row inmate convicted of killing a police officer, had been victimized by racially biased jury selection.

While those criticisms have been leveled at other industries since the killing of George Floyd in May, few have given their critics as much cause for concern as agencies.

From Digiday

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.

Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.

And similar shards of enthusiasm-killing kryptonite are lodged in John Kasich, Mike Pence and Ted Cruz.

But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.

That, and a range war that grew out of the killing, and some kind of a business deal just about broke them.

The Taube has been bothering us again, but wound up its manœuvres very decently by killing some fish for our dinner.

It's a big chunk of money, and a little thing like killing a man or two won't trouble them.

Sometimes a horseman may succeed in killing him by cutting across his undeviating course.

However, I am bound to admit that it is a first-rate country for sport—also for killing Englishmen.

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to killing, such as: assassination, bloodshed, carnage, homicide, manslaughter, and massacre.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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