as in assailants
one who violently sets upon another
was able to pick her attacker out of the police lineup
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Recent Examples of attackers
The False Comfort Of The Status Quo With firewalls in place, VLANs dividing the network and perimeter defenses monitoring network traffic, security and business leaders often believe their current controls are enough to hold attackers at bay until the next investment cycle.
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Jaushin Lee, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
But in cryptography, even the smallest deviation can create vulnerabilities that attackers may exploit.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
This allows attackers to inject paths into the host part, prepending the actual path.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
None of their attackers is in the conversation for the best XI of the season.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 25 May 2026
The attackers started to go door to door, but the guard, Amin Abdullah, had already triggered a lockdown alert and the students were in another area of the building.
—Anna Schecter, CBS News, 20 May 2026
One of the attackers’ guns had hate speech written on it, law enforcement sources told The Times, and anti-Islamic writings were found in a vehicle.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
Abdullah exchanged gunfire with the attackers and alerted everyone inside to go into lockdown, officials said.
—Tom Winter, NBC news, 19 May 2026
For example, the investigators recovered anti-Islamic writing in the car of the attackers.
—Ibrahim Al-Marashi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
Jaushin Lee, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
But in cryptography, even the smallest deviation can create vulnerabilities that attackers may exploit.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
This allows attackers to inject paths into the host part, prepending the actual path.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
None of their attackers is in the conversation for the best XI of the season.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 25 May 2026
The attackers started to go door to door, but the guard, Amin Abdullah, had already triggered a lockdown alert and the students were in another area of the building.
—Anna Schecter, CBS News, 20 May 2026
One of the attackers’ guns had hate speech written on it, law enforcement sources told The Times, and anti-Islamic writings were found in a vehicle.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
Abdullah exchanged gunfire with the attackers and alerted everyone inside to go into lockdown, officials said.
—Tom Winter, NBC news, 19 May 2026
For example, the investigators recovered anti-Islamic writing in the car of the attackers.
—Ibrahim Al-Marashi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attackers
assailants
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While the rally at a central square in Belgrade passed peacefully, groups of young assailants later clashed with riot police, throwing flares, rocks and bottles at police cordons.—
Jovana Gec,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
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On Monday, two assailants, a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old, attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, the site of both a mosque and school, killing three adults.—
Ibrahim Al-Marashi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
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“Attackers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attackers. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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