Thesaurus results for EXECUTIONER

executioner

noun

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as in murderer

a person who executes people who have been sentenced to death was sentenced to face the executioner

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Recent Examples of executioner Who gets to decide who the judge, jury, and executioner is? —

David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026 Her mother, Madeleine (Léocadie Uwabeza), attends these group sessions as part of the program’s attempts to encourage forgiveness between victims and the families of the executioners. —

Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 19 May 2026 Iran is the world's most prolific executioner after China, according to rights groups. —

CBS News, 12 May 2026 Judd hands her a gun and tells her to join the executioner’s squad. —

Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for executioner

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This psychological thriller stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia struggling to track down his wife’s murderer using a system of tattoos and notes.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 June 2026

Definition of murderer

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These artisans, with their trade secrets, were kept on Murano, a cluster of islands just across the lagoon from the city, ostensibly as a precaution against fire, though the state would also send assassins after anyone who tried to leave.

— Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
As a pirate assassin and post-apocalyptic warrior, Krem of the Yellow Hills connects with Aries.

— Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026