massacre

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

The Palestinian territory's Hamas-run interior ministry said the head of the local police station, Col Mohammed Marwan Salem, and several other officers were among those killed in what it condemned as a "massacre".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Following the ceremony, Chief Rabbi Schudrich spoke out against divisive narratives surrounding the history of the massacre.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Rabin had condemned the massacre, and Israel had outlawed the Kahanist organizations by the time of the press conference, less than three weeks later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

She was resettling people from our massacre, and she needed to make sure the right people were being relocated.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

According to the UN, around 115,000 people have entered Lebanon from Syria since the fall of Assad, many of them since the sectarian massacres that targeted the Alawite minority on the Syrian coast in March.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 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

Some of its forces managed to rescue Alawites and it has put some of the ringleaders of the massacres on trial.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

Even during the massacres of 1915 the Armenians of Smyrna had been safe.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Over the last two decades, North American bats have been devastated by a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome that has massacred millions of the flying mammals.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 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

He knew he’d been massacred by the oncoming players, capsized and dumped humiliatingly on the ground.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

But in 2024, officials confirmed that the virus had jumped from birds to cows to humans, all while massacring millions of wild animals and tearing through dairy and poultry farms across the country.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025

From Carrie massacring a whole prom with telekinesis to Sabrina Spellman’s Big Witch Energy, we must both respect teen emotions and fear them at the same time.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020

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

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