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 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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Noun

Agent Mulder, hot on the trail of a group of murderers who are harvesting their victims' organs, breaks into a makeshift laboratory in an attempt to save an abducted woman.

— Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
The statement came after Roth detailed a sequence in the film to Polygon that features a cartoon that seemingly hypnotizes children, turning them into murderers.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of murderers

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Many of Ellis’s most awful characters are the most conventionally attractive, their looks serving as a shield against their various crimes; Murphy co-created The Beauty, in which tech moguls and assassins kill to be beautiful.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026
Authorities were seeking both the assassins and masterminds of the crime, according to the president.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of assassins

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Again, there were far fewer serial killers in Murphy’s own tales, but the message was the same.

— Hunter Ingram, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
Nearly 30 years ago, rap superstar Tupac Shakur was headed to an afterparty in Las Vegas when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting, his unknown killers speeding away from the scene in a white Cadillac.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026

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