Orders
Records
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Real Life examples include Iran's US embassy workers shredding intelligence material immediately before they were overrun by the angry mob in 1980, or the Wehrmacht burning orders and records whenever they were forced to retreat in the later stages of WW2.
Source: Destroy the Evidence - Birdman of Alcatraz portrayed Robert Franklin Stroud as orders of magnitude gentler than his prison records show.
Source: Historical Villain Downgrade -
In This Is Spinal Tap, when the band appears in a store and nobody's buying their records, the shopkeeper orders them to literally kick his ass.
Source: Literal Ass Kicking
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Records and Orders. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/orders/records
Orders & Records. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/orders/records>.
Records or Orders. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/orders/records.
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