perp

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noun

ˈpərp

Synonyms of perp next

: a perpetrator especially of a crime

perp

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Example Sentences

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Noun

No perp walk resulted from allegations presented to the unit, including that aerial objects flipped votes; that election workers scrubbed hard drives; and that satellites under the control of the Italian military penetrated vote-counting machines. —

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez And Isaac Stanley-becker, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023 Police could one day comb security camera footage and identify a perp by how his voice gonged against a glass of water. —

Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2014 Reporters gathered outside an N.Y.P.D. precinct house in Chinatown, where Abdullah had been taken for a perp walk. —

Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023 When Huffman finally did show up and stepped out of her vehicle, accompanied by her husband William Macy and a clutch of lawyers, the twenty-yard walk to the entrance of the courthouse was like a red carpet perp walk. —

Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2023 Thanks to a group at the University of Dundee in the UK, that’s enough information to positively ID the perp. —

Nayanah Siva, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2017 Forty-eight hours later, Flora’s perp had a name: Streptococcus intermedius, an agent that normally lives in the mouth and intestine. —

Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2020 The Patriots, never too timid to take on problem children, have been mercifully absent perp walks of late. —

Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022 Thankfully, that doesn’t seem to bother Present, who’s touched by Kimberly’s personal reflections and surprised to discover she’s the first person other than a perp who can actually see and hear him. —

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2022 See More

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