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Recent Examples of carjacker
The men running to the car were trying to extract the carjacker from a woman’s Buick.
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Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
Elizabeth Diane Downs shot all three of her kids and then claimed a carjacker was responsible for the brutal act.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
The second carjacker, Kenneth Merritt, 29, also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on June 9.
—Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
His predecessor, Robert Devlin, had filed criminal charges against Brian North, a state trooper who fatally shot a carjacker armed with a knife as the man sat in a locked car at the end of a high-speed chase on I-95.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2026
That premonition rings true when his parents (Tara Buckman, Geoff Hansen) are slaughtered by a carjacker dressed as Old Saint Nick himself (Charles Dierkop) just hours later, condemning the toddler into further moral compass trauma at an orphanage run by a domineering Mother Superior nun from Hell.
—Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
An unidentified off-duty police officer and two family members were carjacked, and the carjacker suspect fled in the officer's personal vehicle.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025
Gill was waiting to pick up his wife from work when an armed carjacker opened fire in broad daylight.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
Elizabeth Diane Downs shot all three of her kids and then claimed a carjacker was responsible for the brutal act.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
The second carjacker, Kenneth Merritt, 29, also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on June 9.
—Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
His predecessor, Robert Devlin, had filed criminal charges against Brian North, a state trooper who fatally shot a carjacker armed with a knife as the man sat in a locked car at the end of a high-speed chase on I-95.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2026
That premonition rings true when his parents (Tara Buckman, Geoff Hansen) are slaughtered by a carjacker dressed as Old Saint Nick himself (Charles Dierkop) just hours later, condemning the toddler into further moral compass trauma at an orphanage run by a domineering Mother Superior nun from Hell.
—Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
An unidentified off-duty police officer and two family members were carjacked, and the carjacker suspect fled in the officer's personal vehicle.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025
Gill was waiting to pick up his wife from work when an armed carjacker opened fire in broad daylight.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carjacker
Noun
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The incident, which was part of a double-whammy of violent encounters for the hijacker that day, was preventable and should have been better controlled, according to a wrongful-death suit filed by Jazzmyn Byrd, the daughter of a man who was shot during the hijacking.—
Alex Nettles,
AJC.com,
11 June 2026
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The hijacker was killed when Turkish commandos stormed the airliner and freed the 40 passengers and crew.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There was defender Jules Koundé, who toted a Louis Vuitton monogrammed duffel, followed by forward Ousmane Dembélé, who sported an Hermès Haut à Courroies—sometimes referred to as an HAC—in black leather and big enough to carry a stowaway.—
Max Berlinger,
Vogue,
11 June 2026
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One such incident occurred on Christmas Eve in 2024, when stowaway Shemaiah Patrice Small slipped past TSA and a gate agent before she was discovered in someone else’s seat on the Delta Airlines aircraft, CNN reported.—
Sneha Dhandapani,
CNN Money,
7 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Carjacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carjacker. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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