Assassination and Extinction

Assassination

Assassination noun - Murder of a public figure by surprise attack.

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Extinction and assassination are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extinction" instead a noun "Assassination".

Extinction noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.

Usage example: the state's population of moose has been replenished, having once been hunted almost to extinction

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Assassination and extinction are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Assassination" instead a noun "Extinction".

Nearby Word: extinct

similar	similar assassination	similar extinction
mass	mass assassination	mass extinction
due	due assassination	due extinction
brutal	brutal assassination	brutal extinction
Other adjectives: actual, quick, deliberate, early, major, probable, final, apparent, outright, subsequent, impending, eventual, recent, planned, attempted.

They failed to do so, and in fact, the assassination of Sanaki's grandmother and the framing (and near extinction) of the Herons was the last straw.

Source: Evil Chancellor
In an episode of The Twilight Zone revival, a time-travelling history professor prevented the JFK assassination which resulted in time correcting himself by having Khrushchev be assassinated instead and creating a timeline where mankind's extinction via nuclear war between the U.S.

Source: Who Shot JFK?

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