as in murderers
a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassins
When a father seeking vengeance, an American operative experiencing a string of bad luck, and several independent assassins hailing from around the world all end up on the same bullet train bound for Kyoto, the results are violent — and the survivors minimal.
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
The situation gets more complex with the addition of a bunch of oddball assassins trying to murder the neighbor, plus other mysterious and shady types like his former associate Laverne (Weaver).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
Some bowlers are just smiling assassins.
—Paul Newman, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
Frölich recalled that Frick had pleaded in the Reichstag for amnesty to be given to Ernst Werner Techow, who had been involved in Rathenau’s murder, and had demanded impunity for the Erzberger assassins, Schulz and Tillessen.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
But this particular scenario, in which an outsider queen turns workers into her proxy assassins, has never been described in detail before, researchers reported Monday in the journal Current Biology.
—CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Over 30 days, contestants are hunted by assassins and must survive.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
Presidential assassins and all this dark stuff.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
The upcoming movie takes place in a near-future dystopia in which a man (Powell) must try to survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins — all while being filmed for a popular national television show.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassins
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Nothing will slow us down from recruiting more officers to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from American communities.—
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These officers risk their lives every day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists and gang members from our communities.—
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Some experts say the return of social services and other programs that held communities together before the 2020 pandemic was a driving factor in the recent turnaround; others point to technological advancements that help police catch more killers.—
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Ilya Lyubushkin, Esa Lindell and Sam Steel committed the three penalties in the period, leaving the Stars without some of their best penalty killers.—
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“Assassins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassins. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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