massacre
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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
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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
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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
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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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