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as in to butcher
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The war in Gaza was forced upon Israel after the terrorist group Hamas violently invaded and butchered over 1200 Israelis and took hundreds of innocent people hostage.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025 -
Some scam fighters find tech companies' efforts to fight pig butchering too little and too late, however.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC News,
21 Nov. 2024
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Despite throttling the press and trying to suffocate the opposition, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost its absolute majority in parliament in part because of widespread economic disaffection among voters.—
Isabella M. Weber,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Jan. 2025
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Israel has faced intense criticism for throttling the distribution of humanitarian aid and failing to ensure safe routes for delivery.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
15 Jan. 2025
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Opponents adjusted and cut down on big plays as the 2024 season went along.—
Mike DeFabo,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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The injured tree must be cut down to retrieve the agarwood, which is extracted from the trunk and the root.—
Sable Yong,
Allure,
17 Jan. 2025
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Listen to this article The Chicago Bulls wasted a chance for some breathing room in the play-in standings Saturday night, losing to the Philadelphia 76ers 109-97 at the United Center.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
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For it is a law of nature that if a deathless copy is produced, waste must follow; and that waste from such copies results in the death of real, living nature.—
Maria Balaska,
TIME,
25 Jan. 2025
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An artists’ livelihood lost to flames That same pungent, chemical smell had choked the air just a few miles away as the fire kept racing before dawn on January 8 through west Altadena, sending embers zipping through the air like bullets.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man, was punched, kicked, choked and manhandled in the Dec. 9 beating at Marcy Correctional Facility north of Utica.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Previously seen in Netflix’s Seven Seconds and Apple TV+’s Truth Be Told, Lyons is finishing Howard Gordon’s upcoming Netflix limited series The Beast In Me with Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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Lost in that: Färjestad finished first in the SHL’s regular season last year and didn’t have room.—
Scott Wheeler,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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That means the Senate's only practical effect is adding another point at which oligarch lobbyists can garrote popular policy.—
Ryan Cooper,
The Week,
29 Oct. 2021
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Tony, unhindered by any sense of moral anguish, garrotes the man in broad daylight with a length of cable.—
Adam Wilson,
Harper's magazine,
16 Sep. 2019
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In Los Angeles, Miami and New York, killers have targeted and murdered groups of homeless people in a matter of days.—
Leah Goodridge,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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Most people know the end of the story of Selena Quintanilla, the pop star who brought Tejano music to the mainstream before she was tragically murdered at the age of 23.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Scrag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrag. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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