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Recent Examples of perp
Using two cantaloupes and some ketchup, Dexter demonstrates that the perp must have strangled his victim to death before dropping the body, accounting for the limited blood spatter.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Lori Loughlin has gone from pleading guilty in real life to busting perps on screen.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
Jamie pins the perp against the wall and, in a moment of poetic closure, Janko arrives and cuffs him using Badillo's handcuffs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
But even if your name is one in a million, a perp could offer up that name to the police, perhaps with a fake ID.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Lori Loughlin has gone from pleading guilty in real life to busting perps on screen.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
Jamie pins the perp against the wall and, in a moment of poetic closure, Janko arrives and cuffs him using Badillo's handcuffs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
But even if your name is one in a million, a perp could offer up that name to the police, perhaps with a fake ID.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perp
Noun
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Every day Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President Trump's administration is removing from our communities.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s false claims about other countries emptying their jails of violent criminals to prey on Americans have been fact-checked and denied.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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Pardoning violent felons who harmed police officers sends a dangerous message: Commit crimes for Trump, and there will be no consequences.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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Last June, Muhammad pleaded guilty in federal court to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Unsurprisingly, the government pointed to leftists as the assassins.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Jan. 2025
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Trump had nearly been killed by an assassin’s bullet at a Pennsylvania rally, an act that hit close to home for Kennedy, whose father was assassinated on the Presidential campaign trail.—
Clare Malone,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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One crook appears to be sitting outside on the front of the lead subway car, his feet dangling over the tracks.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
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Then slide it all the way to the left, and grab your right elbow with the crook of your left arm to pull it in even further.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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At least 49 businesses have been robbed so far in the spree, according to the United Bodegas of America (UBA) trade group, which is offering a $5,000 bounty on the bandits.—
Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Several warring factions exist within the Zone, as well as lone bandits and stalkers.—
Issy van der Velde,
Rolling Stone,
20 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The gunmen fled southbound on Wabash Avenue, prosecutors said.—
Rebecca Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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According to witnesses and testimony from freed hostages, Moses tried to reason with Hamas gunmen before he was taken by militants, along with his partner, Efrat Katz, her daughter and two visiting grandchildren.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA TODAY,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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He was dressed in a pirate’s costume at the time in July 2015, Monroe County deputies said.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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But when he’s presumed dead after a tragic run-in with a pirate ship, our heroine is forced to take up with the spiteful Prince Humperdink—that is, until a masked man in black jumps in to save her.—
Gia Yetikyel,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2025
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This keeps malefactors from abusing the service to snoop on private data other than their own.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
7 Jan. 2025
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If not properly secured, OTA updates may be intercepted and altered by malefactors, risking the reliability of the entire system.—
Klaudia Zaika,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2024
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“Perp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perp. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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