assassinated

[uh-sas-uh-nayt-id]

adjective

1. murdered for political reasons.

Example Sentences

“But the thing that’s most egregious to me is the message it sends to these children who are in the school that was created in my father’s name, at the site where he was assassinated.”

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The assassinated mayor's widow, however, distanced her husband's movement from the demonstration on Saturday.

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The assassinated mayor's widow, however, distanced her husband's movement from the protests on Saturday.

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Naming his grandfather, who was assassinated in 1963, as his hero, Schlossberg told Vogue that JFK's administration was "a blueprint for how progressivism can work in America".

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A security source told the agency she had been assassinated because she had been accused of filming jihadists "for the Malian army".

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