carjacker

as in hijacker

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Recent Examples of carjacker 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
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stowaway
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  • Just as Cassini was sent into Saturn at the end of its mission to avoid contaminating Saturn’s moons with any stowaway organics brought from Earth, so too will Juno be brought to an end by forcing it to plunge into a gas giant world.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Inside, Bond introduces us to Paddington, a stowaway who has emigrated from Peru.
    Daniel Horowitz August 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Carjacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carjacker. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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