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n. - An act of calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals; The act of inspiring with fear.

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  • Dictionary. com defines Terrorism as "the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization."
  • And that, I feel, is ultimately what I am objecting to: the terrorization of the planet by the United States and Israel.
  • The only thing that would hold them from their children would be the dictation and the terrorization that they have been.
  • It is the daily reality of a war gone so wrong that the terrorization of men, women and children in Iraq is now just expected.
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