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Recent Examples of perpetrator
The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased.
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Wcco Staff, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
In many cases, the perpetrator is also the employer who controls not only wages and work hours, but housing and transportation, creating an extreme power imbalance in which retaliation can mean losing a job, losing shelter, or being forced deeper into poverty.
—Mónica Ramírez, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
Fox News Digital previously reported that a manhunt is underway for the perpetrator, with the police requesting video from any neighbors and individuals who may have been in the area.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
All four of the infractions that were taken on Monday were stick penalties, which often suggest the perpetrator is behind the play.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
In Theaters February 20 Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer (Georgina Campbell) sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2025
Coupang — The Korean e-commerce company rallied 8% after the company said the perpetrator of a cybersecurity incident had been identified.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2025
But as Sollima noted to TIME, no perpetrator has been sentenced for all eight double homicides, and the initial suspects sent police in circles while the bodies kept piling up.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
The cases feel grounded in real life and have texture beyond the basic facts, motive and perpetrator.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetrator
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Boardman imposed a sentence of 97 months, citing Roske’s mental health and concerns about incarceration conditions and his status as a first-time criminal offender.—
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Since 2013, the law has allowed juvenile offenders serving life without parole to petition to have their sentence recalled and to be resentenced.—
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The agent delivered several defensive strikes to free his genitals from the perp’s grasp.—
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Proctor is one of the perps in Plymouth, and a victim in Norfolk.—
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The first thing to do is to reduce the damage to the United States, the inflow of guns and criminals and immigrants and drugs into the United States, the destabilizing of a key part of the Western Hemisphere.—
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Also, place freezes with ChexSystems and the National Consumer Telecom and Utilities Exchange to stop criminals from opening bank accounts, phone lines, or utility services in his name.—
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Though detectives conclude that assassin cult members Ash (Jon Pointing) and Dee Dee (Maeve Courtier-Lilley) were the ones who killed Aaron, Paige revealed that the real killer was Ingrid.—
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Maduro is being held in the same federal jail in Brooklyn as accused assassin Luigi Mangione.—
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First Nationwide Bank in Wilmette was robbed by a gunman wearing a fake beard.—
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Police said a gunman arrived on a bicycle, opened fire with a semiautomatic handgun and fled, prompting an overnight manhunt.—
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Wisch was charged with felonies, including three counts of home invasion, two counts of armed robbery, and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.—
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He was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by a felon, police said.—
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There can be no doubt that in tax terms, America’s wealthiest families make out like bandits.—
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The robbery lasted less than seven minutes, as the bandits used a truck with an extendable ladder to cut through a window on a second-floor balcony, according to police.—
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Other malefactors he’s let off the hook include Changpeng Zhao, the money-laundering former CEO of Binance, which has ties to the Trump family’s cryptocurrency business; disgraced former congressman and embezzler George Santos; and Illinois’ politically corrupt former governor, Rod Blagojevich.—
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Electronic medical records were once touted as secure, but whole hospital systems have been taken down and held for ransom by malefactors.—
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“Perpetrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrator. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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