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a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassins
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.
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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
After diplomatic negotiations, the Iranian state called off its assassins in 1998.
—Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
One week later, on May 15, assassins forced Valdez, 50, from his car at midday and shot him at least a dozen times in downtown Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is a dystopian sci-fi movie about a reality TV show where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
In the first season of action thriller A Shop For Killers, Kim Hye-jun starred as Jeong Ji-an, a college student who must fight off a bevy of highly skilled assassins while trying to get to the bottom of her uncle’s death.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
The internet has the ability to create assassins and sway elections and destroy families, to waste our time and wreck our life.
—Gideon Leek, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
When a father seeking vengeance, an American operative experiencing a string of bad luck, and several independent assassins hailing from around the world all end up on the same bullet train bound for Kyoto, the results are violent — and the survivors minimal.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
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
After diplomatic negotiations, the Iranian state called off its assassins in 1998.
—Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
One week later, on May 15, assassins forced Valdez, 50, from his car at midday and shot him at least a dozen times in downtown Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is a dystopian sci-fi movie about a reality TV show where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
In the first season of action thriller A Shop For Killers, Kim Hye-jun starred as Jeong Ji-an, a college student who must fight off a bevy of highly skilled assassins while trying to get to the bottom of her uncle’s death.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
The internet has the ability to create assassins and sway elections and destroy families, to waste our time and wreck our life.
—Gideon Leek, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
When a father seeking vengeance, an American operative experiencing a string of bad luck, and several independent assassins hailing from around the world all end up on the same bullet train bound for Kyoto, the results are violent — and the survivors minimal.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassins
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Americans should look to that history in setting expectations for what happens next in Iran now that another batch of maniacal Middle East murderers have been sent hurtling through the gates of hell.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
6 Mar. 2026
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The novel, Arnott’s first under her married name and subject to a bidding frenzy at the 2024 London Book Fair, reflects her long-standing fascination with murderers.—
Diane Garrett,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Other famous Austin murders, shootings Media outlets and government agencies do not agree on the definitions for mass shootings, active killers or mass killings.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Mar. 2026
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One of Britain's most notorious child killers died Saturday, days after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in the workshop of a maximum-security prison.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Assassins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassins. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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