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  • noun murder by shooting someone down in cold blood

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Examples

  • For example, the 9/11 Commission concluded that Cheney issued the first air force shoot-down order on the morning of September 11, 2001—apparently before he had spoken to the president.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • For example, the 9/11 Commission concluded that Cheney issued the first air force shoot-down order on the morning of September 11, 2001—apparently before he had spoken to the president.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • For example, the 9/11 Commission concluded that Cheney issued the first air force shoot-down order on the morning of September 11, 2001—apparently before he had spoken to the president.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • The country's shoot-down policy effectively ended in 2001 after a CIA and Peruvian Air Force team mistakenly downed a plane carrying a family of U.S. missionaries misidentified as drug traffickers.

    Cocaine: The New Front Lines John Lyons 2012

  • If anything, the pace of innovation is even faster in the military than in the civilian world, and as better look-down, shoot-down capabilities have come on line, they have been systematically layered and squeezed into the aging airframe of the F‑15.

    The Last Ace 2009

  • If anything, the pace of innovation is even faster in the military than in the civilian world, and as better look-down, shoot-down capabilities have come on line, they have been systematically layered and squeezed into the aging airframe of the F‑15.

    The Last Ace 2009

  • Today the fight has moved beyond visual range, into the realm of electromagnetic waves*, and involves what fighter pilots call “look-down, shoot-down” capability.

    The Last Ace 2009

  • But the accidental shoot-down of Iran-Air flight 655 in July 1988 by the USS Vincennes unquestionably contributed to Tehran's determination that the White House had allied itself with Saddam Hussein and therefore the Iran-Iraq war was lost.

    Iran's Act of War Reuel Marc Gerecht 2011

  • Khomeini continued the slaughter of the Iran-Iraq war for six years beyond the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Iran, but agreed to a UN cease-fire after becoming convinced the United States was about to intervene more directly after the accidental shoot-down of an Iranian airliner in 1988.

    Wonk Room » Cohen: The Iranian Regime’s Days are Numbered 2009

  • Today the fight has moved beyond visual range, into the realm of electromagnetic waves*, and involves what fighter pilots call “look-down, shoot-down” capability.

    The Last Ace 2009

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