as in murderer
a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassin
Later, the team pieces together that the assassins were professionals who had been hired by someone with deep pockets.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
Three years later, a would-be assassin took aim at Roosevelt, too.
—Douglas Brinkley, USA Today, 24 May 2026
The open-world game follows a shinobi assassin and a powerful samurai caught in the midst of political unrest in feudal Japan.
—Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 May 2026
To play Baby Karmakar, the deaf-mute assassin at the center of it, Qureshi learned sign language.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2026
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
Three years later, a would-be assassin took aim at Roosevelt, too.
—Douglas Brinkley, USA Today, 24 May 2026
The open-world game follows a shinobi assassin and a powerful samurai caught in the midst of political unrest in feudal Japan.
—Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 May 2026
To play Baby Karmakar, the deaf-mute assassin at the center of it, Qureshi learned sign language.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassin
Noun
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Any justice in the community would praise this murderer’s row of craftspeople working on the production design for the period town setting; makeup, especially Pennywise’s horrible face; sound design, for helping to keep the audio terrors churning along; and the costume work.—
William Earl,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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That year, even major characters and first-person narrators wound up dead, killed by strangers or friends or family members, often by parents, or serial murderers, or in accidents, usually right at the end at the story, no warning.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
Noun
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In her follow-up, Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia attend a fancy party on an island estate; when the host turns up dead, Blanche becomes a suspect, leaving the women with no choice but to find the real killer.—
Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
11 June 2026
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Season 4 focused on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito from the safety of the Navajo Nation to the gritty terrain of 1970s Los Angeles in a race against the clock to save her from an obsessive killer with ties to organized crime.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
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“Assassin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassin. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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