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Recent Examples of triggerman
Ivey said executing Burton while the triggerman avoided capital punishment would be fundamentally unjust, marking only her second clemency grant since taking office.
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Kim Chandler,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
Mendoza, the Hoosiers’ first-year starter after transferring from California, is the triggerman for an offense that surpassed program records for touchdowns and points set during last season’s surprise run to the CFP.
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Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
14 Dec. 2025
The once high-end triggerman is now reduced to lonely drinks in Soho bars and low-rate hits.
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Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Nov. 2025
The triggerman is a 13-year-old orphan named Lucas Hollister (Patrick Scott McDermott, making the most of this grim opportunity), whose younger brother depends on him to protect their late parents’ Wyoming ranch from wolves and other predators.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
2 May 2025
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Kim Chandler,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
Mendoza, the Hoosiers’ first-year starter after transferring from California, is the triggerman for an offense that surpassed program records for touchdowns and points set during last season’s surprise run to the CFP.
—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
14 Dec. 2025
The once high-end triggerman is now reduced to lonely drinks in Soho bars and low-rate hits.
—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Nov. 2025
The triggerman is a 13-year-old orphan named Lucas Hollister (Patrick Scott McDermott, making the most of this grim opportunity), whose younger brother depends on him to protect their late parents’ Wyoming ranch from wolves and other predators.
—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for triggerman
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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.
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Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers.
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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.
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As a pirate assassin and post-apocalyptic warrior, Krem of the Yellow Hills connects with Aries.
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The company makes radar and electronic warfare systems, as well as torpedo defense countermeasures.
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The submarine will be able to carry a mixed load of up to 18 heavyweight torpedoes and SM39 Exocet missiles.
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An informant for the FBI quickly identified members of the Ku Klux Klan as her killers.
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The 16-year-old killer accused of fatally stabbing a young man in the heart of Dyker Beach Park in Brooklyn made an impromptu confession to an off-duty cop just 45 minutes later, prosecutors said Monday.
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“Triggerman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triggerman. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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