assassination
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He’d faced two assassination attempts during the campaign, and we saw what happened to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner a couple of weeks ago.
From Slate • May 7, 2026
But the channel proved its worth by providing speedy and continuous updates of stories like the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
It also included images from the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, at the same venue as last month’s press dinner: the Washington Hilton.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
“The government’s evidence of the charged offense — the attempted assassination of the president — is thus built entirely upon speculation, even under the most generous reading of its theory,” Allen’s attorneys wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
There's no doubt that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand mattered, although he was neither a prodigy nor a genius: his assassination sparked World War I—so his death led to 8,528,831 others.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
Vocabulary lists containing assassination
American History I
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World War I
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