murder
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Together they sketched out the story’s framework: a murder mystery set in a small town replete with shameful secrets and sinister magic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Clark, from Lichfield, Staffordshire, saw charges of murder or manslaughter dropped by prosecutors towards the end of the trial.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
He said his client was not a gang member and that, while Hernández had been accused of murder in El Salvador, he was acquitted of any charges pertaining to that case.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The officer involved was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to seven years in prison.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
If Pike was telling the truth, it meant that Hale—a seeming paragon of law and order who had held himself up as Mollie Burkhart’s most staunch protector—had been lying all these years about Anna’s murder.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Vocabulary lists containing murder
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act II
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