noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an assassination attempt (= an attempt to kill a leader )
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De Gaulle survived an assassination attempt in 1961.
an assassination plot
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The assassination plot to kill General de Gaulle was unsuccessful.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
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Zak saying it was political assassination and nothing to do with the staff of the paper.
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While there is political violence, it has not descended to political assassination .
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So were my years of flying in and out of countries where political torture and assassination were par for the course.
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The press, too, was irresponsible and factional, given to vitriolic personal attacks and political character assassination .
■ NOUN
attempt
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It was the scene of a failed assassination attempt on the royal couple at a charity concert nine years ago.
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There was shouting, the kind of confused commotion that usually attends an assassination attempt .
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In December 1989 he had survived a car-bomb assassination attempt in Cairo.
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So far, no material evidence has linked Pyongyang to the assassination attempt .
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There was tension-Gligorov survived an assassination attempt-but no fighting.
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Patricio Martnez survived the assassination attempt .
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It was clear he had had nothing to do with the assassination attempt .
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The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells.
character
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But if character assassination were a crime, there'd be a long list of suspects.
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But does this justify the character assassination in which Grassley et al have engaged?
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Those who go in for character assassination create human conflicts and can easily end up as victims.
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What he had just heard was character assassination .
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They have turned character assassination into a state-of-the-art enterprise to get big ratings.
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Democrats are not innocent in the game of character assassination .
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There are numerous recent cases of character assassination and reputation assault that would discourage any sane person from accepting high government appointment.
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The press, too, was irresponsible and factional, given to vitriolic personal attacks and political character assassination .
plot
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Daley, as it turned out, seemed to be the only person who knew about an assassination plot .
■ VERB
follow
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Mihailovic wrote an obituary for a Belgrade newspaper following Arkan's assassination .
survive
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Within five years, surviving numerous assassination attempts, he managed to convert thousands of Calvinists back to Catholicism.
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In December 1989 he had survived a car-bomb assassination attempt in Cairo.
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Patricio Martnez survived the assassination attempt.
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There was tension-Gligorov survived an assassination attempt-but no fighting.
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Bernadette Devlin had a close call, but she survived the assassination attempt against her.
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His good fortune in surviving subsequent assassination attempts increased his belief in his divine protection.
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Like the Shah, Hassan had survived several assassination attempts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Flowers were laid to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of John Lennon
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo led to the First World War.
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the assassination of Lincoln
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Three foreign diplomats have been killed in a series of assassinations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His assassination was predictable, although how the murderer passed by the android security guards had yet to be explained.
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In December 1989 he had survived a car-bomb assassination attempt in Cairo.
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There was tension-Gligorov survived an assassination attempt-but no fighting.
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This was Antonio Lozano Gracias, whose appointment as attorney general Zedillo hoped would give the assassination investigations credibility.