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had murdered

  • past perfect
    of murder.
    murder
    noun
    the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson first-degree murder, ormurder one, and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation second-degree murder, ormurder two.

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His defence team countered that Duterte had murdered no one and that the prosecution's argument was based on "hearsay" and "conjecture", falling far short of the bar needed to confirm the charges against him.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Barton also posted that Aluko was in the "Joseph Stalin/Pol Pot category", saying she had "murdered hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of football fans' ears".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

“I had murdered off Alvirah in my first book,” Mary Higgins Clark told Newsday in 2000.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

Then came the whispers suggesting Samsung had murdered its darling: the physical rotating bezel.

From The Verge ● Sep. 7, 2022

Apollo had declared that the plague would be stayed upon one condition: whoever had murdered King Laius must be punished.

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