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Even the Dodgers, the cartoon villains of spending, kind of sort of have a limit.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026 -
And Salieri seems more of hybrid creature, as though a villain out of Christopher Marlowe had suddenly been endowed with Shakespearean self-awareness.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Serious sinners and penitents began a public penance on the first day of Lent.—
Chris Sims,
Louisville Courier Journal,
18 Feb. 2026
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Serious sinners and penitents began a public penance on the first day of Lent.—
Chris Sims,
IndyStar,
13 Feb. 2026
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Sterling police officers were called to the Ice Lanes bowling alley late Thursday night when officers contacted a trespasser who was suspected of being where he wasn't supposed to be.—
Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
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The internet is obsessed with a giant dog trying to show his guarding skills against an unusual trespasser.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Nov. 2025
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For now, his office is limited to civil actions against wrongdoers and passing information to the receiver and state and federal prosecutors.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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California rightly prides itself on standing up for victims of abuse and holding wrongdoers accountable.—
Jaime Huff,
Oc Register,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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It’s mentioned later that the perpetrator was a rapist.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
12 Feb. 2026
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation analyzed home security footage from the morning Nancy Guthrie disappeared, releasing new identifying details of the potential perpetrator while also increasing the reward for information.—
Sarah Lapidus,
AZCentral.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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Best button man in the biz.—
Craig Thomas,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2021
Noun
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But this was always a fraud issue, not an immigration issue, and the White House wrongly assumed that the perps mostly were in the U.S. without legal permission; on the contrary, most of them were and are U.S. citizens or permanent residents or legal refugees.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Damien orders — which also happens to be the title of de Araújo’s autobiographical segment for The Moth — before dashing after the perp.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2026
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Gaetano Milano, a sharpshooting young gangster who renounced the mafia and experienced a religious rebirth after gunning down one of New England’s most ruthless mob bosses, died early this week.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
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In the film, the twins return from Chicago in the early 1930s, which inspired Carter to turn to photos of Chicago gangsters from the era.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Gallows bird.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallows%20bird. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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