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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a slain" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where "slain" is an adjective describing someone who has been killed, but it should be used with a noun, such as "a slain soldier."
Example: "The memorial honored a slain hero who fought bravely for his country."
Alternatives: "a fallen" or "a deceased".
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Inflation was a slain beast.
Above, a funeral for a slain candidate.
A slain Muslim Brother is a martyr; a slain Muslim is a thug.
Blood symbolizes murder, birth, passion, danger, and conquest, as when hunters drink from a slain animal.
Ilana Romano, the widow of a slain Israeli athlete, remains upset with Rogge.
A woman was arrested for making a threat to the brother of a slain dentist.
As a journalist, would he have felt awkward receiving the same treatment as a slain soldier?
And then the bands are forgotten, abandoned on the side table: a slain dragon.
The divine aspect, however, is not that of a living god but rather that of a slain, powerless divinity.
Similarly, it was reported that Aboriginal Australians believed that the spirit of a slain enemy entered the slayer.
Pictures of him were splashed across the papers, rifle in hand, standing proudly in front of a slain elephant.
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