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Its savage truth explains Black folks’ deep compassion for British scholar Jason Arday, and the widespread anger over concerted efforts to assassinate his character before he was found dead.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

One North Korean commando, captured during a daring 1968 mission to assassinate the South Korean president in Seoul, recalls the confusion he felt when first encountering Christianity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

Among those released so far are Spanish-Venezuelan rights activist Rocio San Miguel, arrested in 2024 over her purported role in an alleged plot to assassinate Maduro.

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026

The HSCA’s link analysis about the Grapevine Tavern and its conclusion that the Ray family was deeply involved in the plan to assassinate King were never pursued by the Department of Justice.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025

My father made maps for the men who attempted to assassinate Hitler.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Fear is the dungeon of the mind, and superstition is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

I think of you always; Jack also; I have told him so much, he assassinates himself with desire to see you all.

From Fernley House by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

Error endlessly assassinates itself in a futile effort to escape its immortality.

From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Wallace Smith

With his pen, as Cellini with his dagger, he assassinates; his cynicism serves him for a coat of armour.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

It assassinates the peace of families, it cuts away honor from the family name, it lets out the vital spark of life, and is followed by inconsolable death.

From Fifteen Years in Hell by Luther Benson

Haiti has not held elections since 2016, and its last president, assassinated in 2021, has not been replaced.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Kennedy, who was born after her father was assassinated, credits not only him but her whole family with inspiring her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Marx was largely unknown outside of Colorado’s evangelical community before Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Over the past year-and-a-half, Muscovites have woken to news that army generals in Moscow have been assassinated, and drones have been targeting the capital.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Donny—supposedly assassinated by then—was peeking, and shouted, “Hey, what you doing, Pee-Pee?”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

"The play in no way advocates assassinating our political leaders, or anyone," the writer stresses.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

When the parole board granted release for Sirhan Sirhan — the man convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy in downtown Los Angeles — Newsom overruled them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

“Send it to any other powerful figure with a platform and an audience who is considering whether they will take the chance to seek profit and fame by assassinating the moral character of ordinary people.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

A California review board on Wednesday denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee serving a life sentence for assassinating U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2023

Their mission was to strike a blow against Austria and the Hapsburg monarchy by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman