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Killing of Yahya Sinwar
Killing of Yahya Sinwar: Israeli forces shot dead the Hamas leader, architect of the October 7, 2023 attack, on October 16, 2024, in a chance encounter in Rafah's Philadelphi Corridor; DNA and drone footage confirmed his death.
Killing of Yasser Abu Shabab
Yasser Abu Shabab (ياسر أبو شباب), leader of the Israel-backed Popular Forces militia in eastern Rafah, Gaza, was killed December 4, 2025, in a disputed internal clash; accounts blame the Abu Sneima family, his own men, or Hamas.
Killing of Yuki Adachi
The killing of Yuki Adachi (安達結希) was the 2026 death of an 11-year-old boy in Nantan, Kyoto Prefecture, for which his adoptive father was charged with murder.
Killing Season (film)
Killing Season is a 2013 action thriller directed by Mark Steven Johnson, starring Robert De Niro and John Travolta as Bosnian War veterans on opposite sides; a critically panned, limited-release film grossing about $1.07 million worldwide.
Killing Stalking (킬링 스토킹)
Killing Stalking (킬링 스토킹) is a Korean BL psychological thriller webtoon by Koogi, serialized on Lezhin Comics 2016–2019 in 67 chapters; it won Lezhin's ₩100,000,000 contest prize and was printed in English by Seven Seas.
Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly (Cogan's Trade, 2012) is Andrew Dominik's Cannes-competition crime film, adapted from George V. Higgins's 1974 novel and set amid the 2008 financial crisis, starring Brad Pitt as hit man Jackie Cogan.
Killing vector field
A Killing vector field, also called a Killing symmetry, is a vector field leaving a manifold's metric unchanged, describing continuous spacetime symmetries in general relativity.
Killing Veerappan
Killing Veerappan (ಕಿಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ ವೀರಪ್ಪನ್) is Ram Gopal Varma's 2016 Kannada crime thriller on Operation Cocoon, the STF operation that killed bandit Veerappan in 2004, starring Shivarajkumar and Sandeep Bhardwaj, remade in Hindi as Veerappan.
Killing Zoe
Killing Zoe is Roger Avary's 1993 feature directorial debut, a crime thriller starring Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, and Jean-Hugues Anglade about a Bastille Day Paris bank heist that collapses into a hostage bloodbath; released 1994, grossed $418,961.
Killings of Aaron Danielson and Michael Reinoehl
The August 29, 2020 killing of Patriot Prayer supporter Aaron 'Jay' Danielson in Portland by antifascist Michael Reinoehl, and Reinoehl's September 3, 2020 death at the hands of a U.S. Marshals task force in Lacey, Washington, with contested evidence and no legal accountability.
Killings of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley
Killings of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, also called the God's Misfits case: two Hugoton, Kansas women murdered March 30, 2024 in Texas County, Oklahoma during a custody dispute; five charged, Adams sentenced to life without parole.
Killini Oros
Killini Oros (Mount Kyllini, Ziria, Όρος Κυλλήνη) is a 2,376 m limestone mountain in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece; second highest on the peninsula, mythical birthplace of Hermes, Natura 2000 site with the Cave of Hermes.
Killip class
Killip class: four-level 1967 Killip-Kimball classification of heart failure severity in acute myocardial infarction, from class I (no heart failure) to class IV (cardiogenic shock), used in GRACE and TIMI risk scores.
KillRoy Was Here
KillRoy Was Here is a 2022 Kevin Smith comedy horror anthology film about a monster who kills evil adults at the behest of victimized children, released as NFTs.
Killshot (song)
Killshot is Eminem's September 14, 2018 diss track answering Machine Gun Kelly's "Rap Devil"; it set a 24-hour YouTube hip-hop debut record (38.1 million views) and peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100.
Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage: American metalcore band formed 1999 in Westfield, Massachusetts, from Overcast and Aftershock members; name from an X-Files episode. Known for Alive or Just Breathing (2002), gold albums, three Grammy nominations, and ninth album This Consequence (2025).
Killua Zoldyck
Killua Zoldyck (キルア＝ゾルディック) is the deuteragonist of Yoshihiro Togashi's manga Hunter × Hunter: a twelve-year-old heir of the assassin Zoldyck family, a Transmuter Nen user whose electricity abilities and Godspeed technique define his adventures with Gon Freecss.
Killzone
Killzone is a science-fiction first-person shooter series by Guerrilla Games for PlayStation, set in the war between Helghan and Vekta. Six games ran from 2004's PS2 Killzone to 2013's Shadow Fall; Killzone 2 rated 91 on Metacritic.
Killzone (video game)
Killzone is a 2004 Guerrilla Games first-person shooter for PlayStation 2, published by Sony, pitting ISA officer Jan Templar against the Helghast on Vekta; 16-player online multiplayer, later remastered as Killzone HD.
Killzone Shadow Fall
Killzone: Shadow Fall is Guerrilla Games' 2013 first-person shooter and PlayStation 4 launch title, set 30 years after Killzone 3 with Helghast and Vektans divided by a wall; Metacritic 73, servers closed 2022.
Kilmainham Gaol
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's former county gaol opened in 1796 and closed 1924, held Irish nationalist leaders; fourteen 1916 Rising leaders were executed there. Now a museum with a panoptic-style 1861 East Wing of 96 cells.
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock is the largest town in East Ayrshire, Scotland (population about 44,000-47,000), a former railway and industrial town known for the 1812 Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, carpets, engineering, and ongoing regeneration including the £20m Pride in Place programme.
Kilmarnock F.C.
Kilmarnock F.C. (Killie), founded 5 January 1869, Scottish Premiership club at Rugby Park (17,889). League champions 1964-65, Scottish Cup 1920, 1929, 1997, League Cup 2012; manager Neil McCann since January 2026.
Kiln
A kiln is an insulated, thermally insulated chamber or furnace that heats materials to 800–1,800°C for firing ceramics, calcining limestone, and charring wood into charcoal.
Kiln (video game)
Kiln (video game): Double Fine Productions' online multiplayer pottery party brawler, published by Xbox Game Studios, released April 23, 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, PC, PS5, Steam, and Game Pass; players sculpt pots that become 4v4 combat characters.
Kiln House
Kiln House is the fourth studio album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released by Reprise Records in September 1970 and named after the rural English house where it was recorded.
Kiln site
Kiln site is a scheduled monument in Weobley, Herefordshire, England, National Heritage List entry 1005313, scheduled 17 March 1976, legacy ID HE 208, grid SO401515; the record gives no kiln type or date.
Kilo-class submarine
The Kilo-class submarine (Russian Varshavyanka) is a diesel-electric attack submarine designed by Rubin in the Soviet Union, first entering service in the early 1980s and known for quietness.
Kilo-Degree Survey
The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is an optical imaging survey by ESO that mapped the Universe's matter distribution through weak gravitational lensing from 2011 to 2019.
Kilobot
The Kilobot is a small, low-cost swarm robot developed at Harvard University; in 2014, 1,024 Kilobots self-assembled two-dimensional shapes, named a top-10 science breakthrough of the year.