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
Whitesitt caught his state-record cutty there in mid-April, around the same time cutthroats in the northern Rockies are spawning in tributary streams.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 18 Mar. 2026
Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutthroats
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But Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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This specifically benefits murderers and rapists, the officials said, and implies that parole is automatic, not something earned.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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No wonder all these characters wanted to become assassins, Scott implies; they’re removed from reality by so many orders of magnitude that living, breathing fellow humans are just blurry images.—
Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
29 Mar. 2026
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Mirrors were such a precious commodity in the heyday of the Venetian Republic that the assassins were dispatched to, well, dispatch any defectors who left La Serenissima and tried to take the secrets of creating that mesmerizing, reflective surface along with them.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
17 Mar. 2026
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Investigators had little physical evidence to work with, and for 43 years, her killers walked free.—
Francie Ebert,
NBC news,
25 Apr. 2026
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The bills aim to establish an elder parole program in the Empire State, among other changes that would result in the early release of killers.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Cutthroats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutthroats. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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