verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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An alleged attempt to assassinate President Gaviria was foiled.
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In January 1858 an attempt was made to assassinate him as he drove with the Empress to the Opera in Paris.
leader
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The danger of psychopaths who freely cross state borders to poison our medicines or to assassinate our leaders is well known.
president
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On my departure they assassinated the President .
■ VERB
try
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They tried to assassinate her; and killed off two of her closest political friends, Airey Neave and Ian Gow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an attempt to assassinate the Pope
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President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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The CIA may have tried to assassinate Castro.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Many people today, worldwide, remember exactly what they were doing when John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
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One is that a team of Army sharpshooters was sent to Memphis to assassinate King.
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Salinas said he had had excellent relations with two politicians who were assassinated late in his term.
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The latter prevailed, but on 18 March 978 was assassinated by his rival's followers at Corfe in Dorset.
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The plotters' failure came too late for Jumblatt: he was assassinated in March 1977, victim of yet another plot.
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Two weeks later they assassinated Masaryk.