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assassins

noun

plural of assassin

as in murderers

a person who kills another person shot down by an unknown assassin

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Recent Examples of assassins Unfortunately, Daemon’s hired assassins killed Aegon’s young son Jaehaerys instead so any real possibility for a family reconciliation was lost. —

Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026 Forced to flee together, the pair embark on a high-stakes road trip across Europe while being hunted by law enforcement, elite assassins and dangerous criminals. —

Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026 The bombshells, Gabriel from Brazil and Kayda from New Hampshire, arrive like sexy assassins and silently start making out with everyone standing on a red dot. —

Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 June 2026 His legacy as one of rap’s great subliminal assassins is one of the most impressive parts of his career. —

Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2026 During the century-plus the Secret Service resided within the Treasury Department, there were presidential deaths at the hands of assassins (McKinley and Kennedy) or near-death episodes (Reagan). —

Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 1 June 2026 Later, the team pieces together that the assassins were professionals who had been hired by someone with deep pockets. —

Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026 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. —

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

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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
That is always top of mind for writers like Ian Brennan, whose story about life and motivations of one of the most notorious murderers and grave robbers in American history was also an exploration of complex mental health struggles.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 10 June 2026