assassination plots
Plans to kill
Assassination plots are schemes to kill a prominent person, typically a political leader or public figure.
The phrase emphasizes planning and conspiracy rather than the act itself: The Secret Service uncovered an assassination plot against the president.
Failed or foiled plots often receive more attention than successful ones, since the planning becomes the story when the killing doesn't occur.
- garroteStrangling implement
- regicideMurdering a monarch
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- poisonHarmful ingested substance
- shadowLight blocked by object
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- court intrigueintrigue, plots, schemes, conspiracy, scheming
- treasontreason, high treason, sedition, turncoat, state betrayal
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- covert operationsundercover agents, covert ops, stings, infiltration, deep cover
- MediciMedici family, Catherine de' Medici, Catherine de Medici, Giovanni, Catherine
assassination plotscrimes of passion
Violent acts from overwhelming emotion
assassination plotspublic trials
Legal proceedings accessible to citizens
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