Thesaurus results for CUTTHROATS

cutthroats

noun

plural of cutthroat

as in murderers

a person who kills another person while traveling the ancient Silk Road, traders were constant prey to cutthroats and thieves

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Recent Examples of cutthroats Fly-fishers will find an extensive stretch of Gold Medal Water (a designation for quality and trout density) in Colorado, with access to browns, brookies, cutthroats, and rainbow trout. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Aug. 2026 Whitesitt caught his state-record cutty there in mid-April, around the same time cutthroats in the northern Rockies are spawning in tributary streams. — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 18 Mar. 2026

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More than 40 years later, no efforts have been made to prosecute or extradite the presumptive murderers.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2026
But poison, which so often served as the deadly weapon in her books, provided Christie with an intriguing literary arsenal for murderers.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of murderers

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Instead, Cartwright returns to his deceased grandfather’s home thrilled to see that Baker has successfully evaded both the Russian assassins and MI5’s own rabid dogs.

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Those two Russian assassins turned out to be significantly more skilled than the horses and perhaps more motivated, too, in seeking revenge for the killing of one of their own.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of assassins

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The story centers on a band of young killers trained by Master, who holds absolute sway over a tropical rainforest.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026
The killers, Kenny said, were hanging out in Crotona Park well before the shooting and then fled to Manhattan after the murder.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026

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