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assassinate

verb as in murder prominent or important person

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The assassinated mayor's widow, however, distanced her husband's movement from the demonstration on Saturday.

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The assassinated mayor's widow, however, distanced her husband's movement from the protests on Saturday.

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Naming his grandfather, who was assassinated in 1963, as his hero, Schlossberg told Vogue that JFK's administration was "a blueprint for how progressivism can work in America".

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A security source told the agency she had been assassinated because she had been accused of filming jihadists "for the Malian army".

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At the Central Intelligence Agency, planners revived the plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.

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

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