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- verb Present participle of
assassinate .
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Examples
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Notice the scare quotes around the word assassinating
Forbes.com: News E.D. Kain 2011
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For example, as the president of an insurance company, would you have invested more in assassinating Saddam or invading Iraq?
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Lee Harvey Oswald did NOT act alone in assassinating JFK!
Conspiracy theories a-go-go (Reposted) frankwu 2009
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A thorough and enlightening biography of Earl Warren, a man responsible for no shortage of polarizing Supreme Court decisions: Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, and Miranda v. Arizona, as well as the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy.
Cover to Cover 2006
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A thorough and enlightening biography of Earl Warren, a man responsible for no shortage of polarizing Supreme Court decisions: Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, and Miranda v. Arizona, as well as the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy.
Cover to Cover 2006
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Like Ed Marshall (88) I don’t see any difference in assassinating a US national vs. any other individual.
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Lauren Pierce, the president of the College Republicans at University of Texas at Austin, said on Twitter Wednesday that the idea of assassinating President Barack Obama was "tempting."
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So, he came up with the idea of assassinating Sadat during the military parade and that's what happened.
Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience 2002
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If you talk about a relic of the Cold War, the idea of assassinating people is putting right in bed along the likes of the Iraqis, the Saudis.
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She concealed the death for four days and toyed with the notion of assassinating the prominent generals who might stand in the way of her son.
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