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[mas-uh-ker] / ˈmæs ə kər /




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Others disagree with Flanagan’s alteration to the story’s climactic scene, which shifts culpability for the prom massacre from Carrie to a character created expressly for the series.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

"For us, the main thing is that he was convicted and that he was serving his sentence," said Abdurahmanovic, whose brother went missing during the massacre and has never been found.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Tusk was speaking on the anniversary of what Poland calls the "massacre" in Volyn, the then German-occupied part of Poland, now in Ukraine.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

It marked the site of a fort or a massacre, I don’t remember which.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

European officials and their counterparts in both Poland and Ukraine warn that the rift over the World War II massacres serves neither side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“There were massacres against Indigenous communities, they were forced to have one religion,” Sheinbaum said last week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 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

No one really believes Mr. Museveni is a Good Guy, however much he may have opened up Uganda to—gasp!—“international capital,” a worse sin, in Mr. Mamdani’s eyes, than any of the massacres Amin committed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

Soon after the August massacres, he was hit by a volley of paranoid hallucinations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The tension on “The French Chef” was about a massacred bûche de noël or whether that roast-chicken-to-come was being abused.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

There was a battle at Bunker Hill where the Patriots massacred the British troops before they were driven off, and the Rebels also took Fort Ticonderoga without much of a fight.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

The Sri Lankan army spokesman, Brigadier Waruna Gamage rejects allegations that security forces buried civilians after massacring them.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But our current situation — the one that is becoming increasingly harder to ignore — really began about three years ago, when bird flu began spreading rapidly in wild birds, massacring millions of them.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 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

The pretence for this measure, by which the British authorities attempted to justify it, was the false accusation that these men were concerting a scheme for burning the town and massacring the loyal inhabitants.

From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge


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