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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetrator
Noun
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However, a small spatter of blood on the outside of the box could potentially be the perp’s.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
24 Jan. 2025 -
Now, when someone tries to unlock your phone, Bitdefender will silently send you a picture of the perp.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
14 Jan. 2025
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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But during a White House press briefing this week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt boldly asserted that under the Trump administration, all undocumented immigrants are considered criminals.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Our government pardoned and released back on the streets hundreds of violent criminals and felons who took part in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
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
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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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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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Within the space of the Factory, artist and outlaw have come to mirror each other.—
Richard Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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As the ostensible villain of Delmer Daves’s western classic, the outlaw Ben Wade who is being guarded and brought to justice by civilian rancher Dan Evans (Oscar-winner Van Heflin), Ford keeps peeling back layers of humanity, even as the two men enact a tense cat-and-mouse game.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Perpetrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrator. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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