Thesaurus results for MACHINE-GUNNED

machine-gunned

verb

past tense of machine-gun

as in killed

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Rob and Michelle Reiner were killed on December 14, 2025, and Nick is charged with two counts of murder.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
Son of a partisan fighter The son of a World War Two partisan fighter killed in 1945, Mladic was an officer in the old communist Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) when Yugoslavia's disintegration began in 1991.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

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The fire started in the 2300 block of Pickett Road and destroyed five structures, according to Cal Fire.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Almost 50 homes and other structures have been destroyed so far; there have been several injuries, and one of Tibbetts’s neighbors lost 20 German shepherds.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026

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The regime has demonstrated an extreme brutality toward the population, having massacred thousands of unarmed protestors this past January.

— Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Soon after, in January, security forces massacred thousands of Iranian protesters with military-style weapons.

— Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026

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In 1995, Mladic’s troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the only post-World War II case of genocide in Europe.

— Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
In 1995, Mladic's troops slaughtered more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the only post-World War II case of genocide in Europe.

— CBS News, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026

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Around midnight on Friday morning, a member of a team dispatched to monitor the lake told CCTV the barrier forming the lake stretched about 150 meters long and 40 or 50 meters high.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
The report states that on the morning of May 23, police were dispatched to Jacobs’ home near Green Bay because of a disturbance between Jacobs and a woman described as his girlfriend.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

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Rincker, a German immigrant, was known for casting the bell that hung from the first Cook County Courthouse, which was felled by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Frightened that she may be plagued by the same mental illness that felled her mom, Gemma stubbornly refuses to believe anything is wrong.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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Cut marks and scrapes made by flint knives at consistent locations on the bones indicate local humans butchered many of them for meals.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
At the site, excavators found stone tools alongside bones of ancient elephants — and the recent paper, written by archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, suggests the remains were likely deliberately butchered by early human ancestors.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

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