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Noun
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There are no villains—or maybe life, or growing up, or getting older, is the villain.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026 -
His grandiose persona rubbed many the wrong way early on, earning him a villain label.—
Pamela Chelin,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One of my grandsons believes that his denomination is the only one and the rest of us are all sinners.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Dallas Morning News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Because lemme tell ya, there are new sinners inducted every day.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One of them told Felder that the precinct had received a complaint about a trespasser at the synagogue.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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The trespasser was shouting profanities and throwing water from a plastic bottle, Tahara detailed.—
Cecilio Padilla,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Anderson frames his argument largely in relation to the thought of thirteenth-century theologian Thomas Aquinas, who argued that Christians are generally obliged to directly confront someone who is behaving wrongly, and to do it in private to preserve the wrongdoer’s reputation.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Mar. 2026
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He’s talked tough in news conferences about prosecuting child predators, drug traffickers and assorted wrongdoers.—
Dan Sullivan,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Lauderhill police said that in self-defense, the mother then stabbed the perpetrator, but even that wasn't enough to subdue her.—
Morgan Rynor,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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An unknown perpetrator threw several Molotov cocktails at a Russian center in Prague promoting culture and history, Czech police said on Friday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Best button man in the biz.—
Craig Thomas,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2021
Noun
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There are further surprises when Mason’s camera at last faces that perp, serving a life sentence in prison.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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But Seiler, the CEO of STS Digital, believes there’s a downside to the expansion of perps, which let traders magnify their gains or losses.—
Ben Weiss,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The single arrived alongside a music directed by Luis De Pena and Yaslynn Rivera, which pays homage to classic West Coast gangster films.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
27 Mar. 2026
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They get captured by Hungarian gangsters and have to fight (and kill) their way out of an inn run by a shady former dance prodigy (Uma Thurman).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Gallows bird.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallows%20bird. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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