slain

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Other charitable funds help maintain the department’s fleet of helicopters, support the spouses and children of slain officers and promote the official police department band that performs at graduations, funerals and other functions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Further away, friends of the slain officers were remembering the men they had lost - and speaking of their relief that Freeman had been found.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Victoria's Alpine region is home to a very small, close-knit community, where both the Freeman family and the slain officers Neal Thompson and Vadim de Waart were well-known.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Privately, administration officials said two other slain Americans, including al-Awlaki’s teenage son, were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

For each NPC my avatar defeated, I would earn a few meager experience points and, usually, a handful of copper or silver coins dropped by my slain foes.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline