as in murderer
a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassin
He's knocked out and in the trunk of Irene the German assassin's car.
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Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Apr. 2026
In the latest episode that aired on Sunday, Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and his team were hot on the heels of Vaggan (Franka Potente), but the assassin was always one step ahead.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2026
No wonder all these characters wanted to become assassins, Scott implies; they’re removed from reality by so many orders of magnitude that living, breathing fellow humans are just blurry images.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
Lillian Cross, a doctor’s wife, ended up standing near the would-be assassin.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
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Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Apr. 2026
In the latest episode that aired on Sunday, Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and his team were hot on the heels of Vaggan (Franka Potente), but the assassin was always one step ahead.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2026
No wonder all these characters wanted to become assassins, Scott implies; they’re removed from reality by so many orders of magnitude that living, breathing fellow humans are just blurry images.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
Lillian Cross, a doctor’s wife, ended up standing near the would-be assassin.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassin
Noun
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Forget the glossy card-stock mailers with distorted images, designed to make your opponent look like an ax murderer.—
Steve Bousquet,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Apr. 2026
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Why hadn’t any of her producers and writers over the years—a murderers’ row including Tove Lo, Julia Michaels, and the duo Monsters & Strangerz, of the Max Martin school—struck the vein of her personality?—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Admitted Gilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermann confessed to the murders of eight women last week, bringing resolution to a 17-year killing spree that terrorized Long Island.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Cavill’s immortal character is revealed to have been born in 1518 and is forced to fight fellow undying killers at The Gathering, where only one survivor can be left alive.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Assassin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassin. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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