as in murderers
a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassins
The film follows a unit of young assassins who belong to the titular organization, trained in a tropical rainforest by a figure known only as Master.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 May 2026
Riquelme Vega, a Chilean Dutch cocaine importer also in the Super Cartel, wanted to murder a rival in Dubai by sending a team of Colombian assassins to the Emirates, Kinahan voiced his disapproval.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
Confronting her ends in violence, drawing Reacher into a web of secrets involving the Pentagon, political assassins and a powerful woman with ties to the military.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 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
Mirrors were such a precious commodity in the heyday of the Venetian Republic that the assassins were dispatched to, well, dispatch any defectors who left La Serenissima and tried to take the secrets of creating that mesmerizing, reflective surface along with them.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
Consider Bobbi, one of the assassins sent north to find Armando.
—Michael Snyder, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Abova plays Miss All-Sunday, one of the several assassins of the Baroque Works organization.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
And those master assassins would turn out to be a pair of undercover feds.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 May 2026
Riquelme Vega, a Chilean Dutch cocaine importer also in the Super Cartel, wanted to murder a rival in Dubai by sending a team of Colombian assassins to the Emirates, Kinahan voiced his disapproval.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
Confronting her ends in violence, drawing Reacher into a web of secrets involving the Pentagon, political assassins and a powerful woman with ties to the military.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 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
Mirrors were such a precious commodity in the heyday of the Venetian Republic that the assassins were dispatched to, well, dispatch any defectors who left La Serenissima and tried to take the secrets of creating that mesmerizing, reflective surface along with them.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
Consider Bobbi, one of the assassins sent north to find Armando.
—Michael Snyder, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Abova plays Miss All-Sunday, one of the several assassins of the Baroque Works organization.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
And those master assassins would turn out to be a pair of undercover feds.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassins
Noun
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In subsequent years — even up until 120 years later in 2008 — there were murderers that mirrored the Ripper’s crimes.—
Lorena O’Neil,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
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Who'd want a country to be taken over by these killers and these murderers?—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 May 2026
Noun
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Translated, abundant capital is being directed toward the search for cures for the three biggest killers in the cancer realm.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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The rogues’ gallery of killers released by the Parole Board came with rap sheets often marked by blatant disregard for human life.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2026
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