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Discover LudwigThe phrase "assassinations occur" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the frequency or reality of assassinations in historical, political, or social discussions.
Example: "In times of political unrest, assassinations occur more frequently as factions vie for power."
Alternatives: "assassinations take place" or "assassinations happen".
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But this is how most assassinations occur.
The historical frequency with which assassinations occur and the fact that we are a more heavily armed nation makes one wonder whether there is one among us who believes, as did Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, that shooting the president is tantamount to doing the nation a service.
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Nine famous assassinations occurring since 1865 appear in this list.
The violence diminished in the 1980s, when about 50 to 100 political murders and assassinations occurred each year.
Revolutions, attempted coups and assassinations occurred like clockwork; order was maintained or restored, often brutally, by paramilitary groups like the Freikorps (many of whom later became Nazi Brownshirts) with which the government tried to circumvent the troop limits of the Treaty of Versailles.
A series of political assassinations occurred amid suspicion that Stanisic was somehow still pulling the strings.
Throughout the last months of the year, additional attacks, mainly assassinations, occurred around Fallujah and Abu Ghraib.
Garfield's assassination occurred at a time of transition in American medicine.
The assassination occurred at the Audubon Ballroom on Broadway between 165th and 166th Streets, not near the old Madison Square Garden.
The Kennedy assassination occurred 35 years ago today, but there was little to commemorate the moment here; no speeches, no wreaths, no plaques.
"Zamach (Assassination)" occurs after the assassination of the young leader in the first video: an enormous bust of him worthy of Lenin is dedicated in a city square as hundreds of demonstrators and helmeted police look on.
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