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reign of terror
noun as in period of suppression
Example Sentences
They’re currently hitting smaller home haunts across the city, but Silva says, if you go to just one this season, make it Reign of Terror.
During the French Revolution, royal family members and aristocrats went underground to escape the Reign of Terror.
Other real-life subjects include the father of the atomic bomb, a lauded American conductor and the victims and perpetrators of the Reign of Terror in the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma.
The film recounts a period known as the Reign of Terror, when at least 24 Osage were murdered in a conspiracy to get their mineral rights.
The agency conducted a sprawling investigation that culminated in the arrests of three of Brown’s relatives, including her brother-in-law, Ernest Burkhart, bringing an end to what the Osage called the Reign of Terror.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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