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a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassins
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.
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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
Soon, Cooper, Jordan and their reluctant new associates, Byron’s assassins Antonio (Anthony Ramos) and Jeremy (Jeremy Pope), find themselves in the crosshairs of a brewing war within the Forst family.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 5 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
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
Soon, Cooper, Jordan and their reluctant new associates, Byron’s assassins Antonio (Anthony Ramos) and Jeremy (Jeremy Pope), find themselves in the crosshairs of a brewing war within the Forst family.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 5 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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But Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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This specifically benefits murderers and rapists, the officials said, and implies that parole is automatic, not something earned.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This week one of the hot topics in the cesspool of Reddit was mood killers when things are just starting to heat up.—
Sean Joseph OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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Suspect Cole Tomas Allen was confined to a padded cell with constant lighting and repeatedly strip-searched; the judge noted the jail houses convicted killers without such restrictions.—
Michael Kunzelman,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2026
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“Assassins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassins. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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