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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In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026 -
But if a blood relation is mixed up with drug dealers, murderers, and terrorists, why doesn't a man in Jackson's position put an unequivocal distance between them?—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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And those master assassins would turn out to be a pair of undercover feds.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
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After diplomatic negotiations, the Iranian state called off its assassins in 1998.—
Anderson Cooper,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Save the names of the killers and abusers.—
Tom Dunlavey,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Among those potential moves to appease MAHA would be a ban on pre-harvest desiccation, a process where weed killers are applied to crops before harvest to make harvesting easier.—
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Cutthroats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutthroats. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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