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a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassins
The two Kill Bill films, while still about crime and criminals and ninja assassins, set themselves apart from his earlier works.
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
By adopting a policy of assassinating assassins, Israel sought international legitimacy, and perhaps even the quiet approval of some Lebanese.
—Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
The Director also trains young girls to be ballerina-assassins, and one young ballerina (played by Unity Phelan) is shown rehearsing in the scene.
—Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
For some reason, filmmakers have long been of the opinion that hired assassins are just like us, worried about such things as getting older and job security.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
Capone was holed up in Florida at the time but is believed to have sent four assassins to take out Moran and his operatives.
—Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
The young, female assassins in one scene are wearing miniskirts and dashing around in clacket-y colored heels, looking unusually stylish.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 13 Feb. 2025
Kennedy, 71, has spent his lifetime in the spotlight since his Democratic uncle and father were felled by assassins’ bullets in the 1960s but now is set to take on his biggest role yet.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
Scarlett Grey and Quinn Adams are rival assassins who often find themselves at each other’s throats… and in each other’s beds.
—Emily Martin, Them, 10 Feb. 2025
Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
By adopting a policy of assassinating assassins, Israel sought international legitimacy, and perhaps even the quiet approval of some Lebanese.
—Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
The Director also trains young girls to be ballerina-assassins, and one young ballerina (played by Unity Phelan) is shown rehearsing in the scene.
—Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
For some reason, filmmakers have long been of the opinion that hired assassins are just like us, worried about such things as getting older and job security.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
Capone was holed up in Florida at the time but is believed to have sent four assassins to take out Moran and his operatives.
—Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
The young, female assassins in one scene are wearing miniskirts and dashing around in clacket-y colored heels, looking unusually stylish.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 13 Feb. 2025
Kennedy, 71, has spent his lifetime in the spotlight since his Democratic uncle and father were felled by assassins’ bullets in the 1960s but now is set to take on his biggest role yet.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
Scarlett Grey and Quinn Adams are rival assassins who often find themselves at each other’s throats… and in each other’s beds.
—Emily Martin, Them, 10 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassins
Noun
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If drug traffickers are a legitimate target, well then why aren't rapists, murderers and child abusers?—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Then, suddenly, Robbie and his boys are murderers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At the outset of this meditative novel, a pair of out-of-work twins who are haunted by their parents’ histories as thieves and killers decide to go on a hunt for a puma that is terrorizing farmers and livestock in the highlands of Tasmania.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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One of the killers of curiosity is assumptions.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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