career criminal

noun

: a person who has committed many crimes throughout his or her life

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Another of the Ajax player’s cars was being driven around by the son of Gwenette Martha, a career criminal who was gunned down in 2014 and left with 80 bullets in his body. Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025 This time, Mark Ruffalo leads an FBI Task Force assigned to solving a string of armed robberies, led by a family man (Tom Pelphrey) who hardly fits the profile of career criminal. Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2025 Leland is a 13-time felon who qualified as a career criminal thanks to convictions for three violent felonies committed on separate occasions. Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2025 On TV, Montana helped lead the cast of NBC's Good Girls (2018–2021) as career criminal Rio. EW.com, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for career criminal

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“Career criminal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career%20criminal. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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