Benghazi
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- proper noun
- /bɛnˈɡɑːzi/
- Literature
- After Benghazi and around the time of the election, a whole series of top admirals and generals get fired.
- Benghazi attack
- Benghazi consulate
- Benghazi compound
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- You know, Hillary Clinton, Benghazi, OK.
Examples
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Or is Obama making a point about staying on script in the Benghazi incident?
Blog text (1) -
On 9/11, the American heroes in Benghazi sent several emails to Washington asking for help.
Blog text (1) -
So the Democrat side of the Benghazi committee, they came at you.
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After the embassy was attacked in Benghazi, a lot of people, uh, questioned what the White House knew and when they knew it.
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Now we know why Hillary ignored those emergency calls for help from Benghazi.
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Are the details of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi really part of a presidential cover-up?
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Romney rebuked the administration after the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in September.
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In case you didn't see it, Mitt Romney asserted that President Obama had taken days to declare the Benghazi attack an act of terror.
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Was the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi perpetrated by al Qaeda operatives who had been secretly working with the CIA?
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The investigation into the Benghazi attack revealed multiple failures in security protocols.
Synonyms
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6.5
A political scandal like the 1970s United States Watergate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Benghazi is the city's name, and news reporters and politicians often use a place name to mean a big event that happened there, so Benghazi can also refer to the 2012 attack and its political fallout.