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a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassins
Up until then, slashers were silent assassins or a breather.
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Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025
The upcoming movie takes place in a near-future dystopia in which a man (Powell) must try to survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins — all while being filmed for a popular national television show.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
First, though, more assassins come for them.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
Are assassins like Kirk’s killer simply pathological outliers among agitated but otherwise self-restrained populations?
—Ron Barrett, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
The emperor died immediately, and afterward his assassins dragged his tattered remains through the streets of Haiti’s future capital.
—Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
These are the kinds of terrible questions assassins always raise.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
The plane is filled with assassins assigned to kill them both.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
The two Kill Bill films, while still about crime and criminals and ninja assassins, set themselves apart from his earlier works.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025
The upcoming movie takes place in a near-future dystopia in which a man (Powell) must try to survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins — all while being filmed for a popular national television show.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
First, though, more assassins come for them.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
Are assassins like Kirk’s killer simply pathological outliers among agitated but otherwise self-restrained populations?
—Ron Barrett, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
The emperor died immediately, and afterward his assassins dragged his tattered remains through the streets of Haiti’s future capital.
—Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
These are the kinds of terrible questions assassins always raise.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
The plane is filled with assassins assigned to kill them both.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
The two Kill Bill films, while still about crime and criminals and ninja assassins, set themselves apart from his earlier works.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassins
Noun
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Nothing will slow us down from recruiting more officers to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from American communities.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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These officers risk their lives every day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists and gang members from our communities.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Hillside Strangler case, which saw two serial killers terrorize Los Angeles in the late 1970s, is set to be explored in a new true-crime docuseries for MGM+.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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The message is that men will literally make acoustic concept albums about psycho killers instead of going to therapy.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Assassins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassins. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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