as in murderer
a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Fast forward to September, Kimmel was suspended by ABC and Nexstar for six days after making misleading remarks about the assassin of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk on air.
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David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 25 Dec. 2025
The titular story is about an assassin who is having an extremely bureaucratic exchange with a recruit, explaining to him how best to arrange a tableau of dead bodies for maximum aesthetic effect.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
This is one of the worst of them, with Alec Baldwin bravely fighting to bring Medgar Evers’s assassin to justice while Whoopi Goldberg cheers him on and cries.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
When the assassin first meets with Weaver’s character at a restaurant, the circular lighting fixtures, in conjunction with how Hirsch Whitaker frames them, suggests angelic halos floating above the criminals’ heads — fitting (if a bit obvious) in the story of a bad guy trying to do the right thing.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
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The real horror is that the murderers are so thoroughly human.—
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Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous.—
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Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery star as employees of a self-storage facility on top of a former military base, from whence a killer fungus emerges one night.—
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That 15-0 third quarter run was a killer.—
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“Assassin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassin. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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