as in assassin
a person who kills another person
the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
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Recent Examples of murderer
An Arizona murderer was sentenced to life plus 10 years in prison on May 27 after killing a second person only 16 days after he was released in 2020, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona.
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Christina Shaw, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025
And many gangsters of the prairie became heroes, celebrated in a way that murderers in Boston or Baltimore could only envy.
—Paul Begala, New York Times, 31 May 2025
To populate this murderer’s row of, well, murderers, Davidson races against the clock to court talent and get them to New York in time for filming.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 28 May 2025
The public believed this story of intentionality so completely that every shark bite was essentially a murder, and every shark a potential murderer, and the beach was the scene of a crime by a deviant monster against innocent beachgoers.
—Chris Pepin-Neff, Scientific American, 26 May 2025
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Christina Shaw, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025
And many gangsters of the prairie became heroes, celebrated in a way that murderers in Boston or Baltimore could only envy.
—Paul Begala, New York Times, 31 May 2025
To populate this murderer’s row of, well, murderers, Davidson races against the clock to court talent and get them to New York in time for filming.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 28 May 2025
The public believed this story of intentionality so completely that every shark bite was essentially a murder, and every shark a potential murderer, and the beach was the scene of a crime by a deviant monster against innocent beachgoers.
—Chris Pepin-Neff, Scientific American, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for murderer
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New threats emerge, including a ruthless new villain (Bill Skarsgård) and a blind assassin from Wick’s past, played by Donnie Yen in a standout performance.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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The operation, made up of Belarusian contract killers, runs a ballet academy that is a front for their assassin training facility.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Holly Gibney is back on the case, this time facing both a serial killer and a stalker.—
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2025
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Fast forward about four decades to 2023, when the county Crime Lab, run by the DA’s office, was tasked with re-examining the available physical evidence from Peterson’s killing to look for any forensic traces of her killer.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
3 June 2025
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“Murderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murderer. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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