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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 -
Some were made from mug shots and perp-walk photos that highlighted how young, handsome and sane Mangione appeared.—
Joshua Hunt,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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Reckless sanctuary city policies create a sanctuary for one class — criminals.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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All email platforms are targeted by criminals, that’s for sure, but Gmail has the biggest bullseye on its back courtesy of that user base.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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In The Accountant 2, premiering April 25 in theaters, Affleck and Bernthal reunite as brothers Christian and Braxton, who come together to help track down a mysterious assassin.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2025
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The beret-lover with the $20,000 necklace (Lauren McKnight) was the second assassin.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Other survivors speaking to local media said the gunmen accused some of the victims of supporting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.—
Aishwarya S Iyer,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Thompson was shot dead on Dec. 4 outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, where the 50-year-old father of two was arriving for an annual investor conference, with the gunman fleeing the scene.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2025
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McCree was charged with first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and possession of a firearm by a felon.—
Jeff A. Chamer,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Apr. 2025
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Murray also faces a murder charge in the fatal shootings; and a charge of possessing a firearm as a felon.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The caps proved popular with dockworkers, shipwrights and bandits, and, over time, the baker boy hat became synonymous with the newsboy cap (which was actually worn by boys working at newsstands).—
Rosa Rahimi,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Security cameras at the church captured images of the bandit, who appears to be an older white woman.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 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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The signing corpse in question here is that of a real-life outlaw, a man vividly named Elmer McCurdy, born in Maine in 1880 and variously a plumber, lead miner and boozer who decided that robbing banks and trains was a more lucrative way to pay for his whisky.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
27 Apr. 2025
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The trailer for the Western drama dropped Wednesday, showing Baldwin as a notorious outlaw who helps his grandson escape from jail after he's sentenced to death for murder.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Perpetrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrator. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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