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murdered

ADJECTIVE
slain
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
assassinated dead


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There are posh parties, through which some of the young characters pass, though no one is doing cocaine or getting murdered.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

“IBM trading like Claude murdered Watson,” Ken Wattana, founder of an AI agentic company called Conto, joked on X Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey described Widdecombe as "a woman of deep faith who devoted her life to public service. The idea that she could have been murdered is truly horrifying".

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

The paper said that many had, including a private investigator hacking into a phone belonging to the murdered teenager Milly Dowler, for a News of the World story.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

“And Laius was murdered by robbers, where three roads meet on the way to Delphi,” she concluded triumphantly.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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