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[mas-uh-ker] / ˈmæs ə kər /




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Following the ceremony, Chief Rabbi Schudrich spoke out against divisive narratives surrounding the history of the massacre.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

If weekend warriors can’t slay zombies on a dystopian battlefield, at least they can massacre dandelions in their backyards.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Pratt returned to “The Alex Jones Show” in 2017, when the host was under fire for falsely portraying the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut as a hoax.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

Bush’s phone calls during the Tiananmen Square massacre.

From MarketWatch May 14, 2026

Even within my own family, we hadn’t really spoken about the massacre.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Its leaders rejected emigration to Palestine and, after the pogroms and massacres that accompanied Russia’s collapse, went into exile or were crushed by the Soviets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The 57-year-old said he had been studying in Zurich when the war broke out, and had been driven to return to Kosovo after seeing massacres of ethnic Albanians in his country.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

The man in the tub is the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, a journalist and physician who had incited a series of judicial massacres.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

"Our history is full of massacres," psychologist Vered Atzmon Meshulam told me.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2025

During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

During a session on Iran's record, Bahreini urged the UN's top rights body to instead discuss the Iranian cultural heritage under "indiscriminate" attack and "the innocent children massacred at their school desks".

From Barron's Mar. 16, 2026

And then there’s bird flu, which isn’t just infecting dairy cows and poultry lately, but has also massacred millions of wild birds.

From Salon Oct. 20, 2024

Richard said: "To get even one goal was a surprise, that was a delight. I think I will wake up in a minute and we will be getting massacred 7-0."

From BBC Jan. 27, 2024

“They massacred our forest,” Nejla Isik, from the Ikizkoy Environment Committee, said at a meeting with lawyers reported by the Duvar newspaper.

From Washington Times Jul. 31, 2023

He knew he’d been massacred by the oncoming players, capsized and dumped humiliatingly on the ground.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Most of these infections occur among farmworkers who come into contact with dairy cows and poultry, which the virus is infecting and massacring in massive numbers.

From Salon Dec. 18, 2024

Less than 10 years ago, the United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zayed, spoke up against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria for massacring civilians.

From New York Times Jan. 28, 2022

She made it sound as if they were massacring endangered baby eagles.

From Slate Feb. 16, 2019

Not the Adams of Founding Father fame, but John Adams when he was a younger man, who in 1770 agreed to defend British soldiers accused of massacring Boston colonists.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2016

Sloe is one of those dogs that cannot resist temptation, and although she has often been whipped and scolded for massacring rabbits, never listens to the voice of conscience.

From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Buckland, A. R. (Augustus Robert)




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