massacre
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It tried to purchase Jones’s media company out of bankruptcy with the support of families who lost children in the Sandy Hook massacre.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
"In the half-century since the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, this is the most prolonged crackdown that we've seen – far eclipsing the period after the Tiananmen massacre in 1989," Johnson says.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Researchers believe the massacre occurred during a period of instability in the Carpathian Basin.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
He intervened in Libya against Moammar Gadhafi’s military to prevent a massacre in Benghazi.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
He went through the small square by the station and he saw the fritter stands piled one on top of the other and he could find no trace of the massacre.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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