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a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassins
Mirrors were such a precious commodity in the heyday of the Venetian Republic that the assassins were dispatched to, well, dispatch any defectors who left La Serenissima and tried to take the secrets of creating that mesmerizing, reflective surface along with them.
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Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
Consider Bobbi, one of the assassins sent north to find Armando.
—Michael Snyder, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Abova plays Miss All-Sunday, one of the several assassins of the Baroque Works organization.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
Soon, Cooper, Jordan and their reluctant new associates, Byron’s assassins Antonio (Anthony Ramos) and Jeremy (Jeremy Pope), find themselves in the crosshairs of a brewing war within the Forst family.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
And those master assassins would turn out to be a pair of undercover feds.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
After diplomatic negotiations, the Iranian state called off its assassins in 1998.
—Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
One week later, on May 15, assassins forced Valdez, 50, from his car at midday and shot him at least a dozen times in downtown Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is a dystopian sci-fi movie about a reality TV show where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
Consider Bobbi, one of the assassins sent north to find Armando.
—Michael Snyder, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Abova plays Miss All-Sunday, one of the several assassins of the Baroque Works organization.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
Soon, Cooper, Jordan and their reluctant new associates, Byron’s assassins Antonio (Anthony Ramos) and Jeremy (Jeremy Pope), find themselves in the crosshairs of a brewing war within the Forst family.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
And those master assassins would turn out to be a pair of undercover feds.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
After diplomatic negotiations, the Iranian state called off its assassins in 1998.
—Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
One week later, on May 15, assassins forced Valdez, 50, from his car at midday and shot him at least a dozen times in downtown Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is a dystopian sci-fi movie about a reality TV show where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassins
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The meeting ended—the first where the Young Lords and community people had done a fine job of exposing the real criminals and murderers in the streets of our communities.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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The act allowed murderers’ bodies to be claimed by anatomists for research.—
Tara Ramanathan,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One of the world's most prolific serial killers, Bundy confessed to murdering at least 30 women and young girls between 1974 and 1978, and investigators suspect that there may be many more victims, as the extent of his crimes (which also included rape and kidnapping) isn't fully known.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
4 Apr. 2026
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Nor was the literary confrontation around this time between addicts and killers, illness and crime, limited to conventional crime novels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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