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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit men
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Later variants of the class, including USS New Jersey, are equipped with two large-diameter Virginia Payload Tubes in addition to Mk 48 torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026 -
Escarra messed with the torpedoes in 2025, but never committed.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2026
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The meeting ended—the first where the Young Lords and community people had done a fine job of exposing the real criminals and murderers in the streets of our communities.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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The act allowed murderers’ bodies to be claimed by anatomists for research.—
Tara Ramanathan,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 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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Consider Bobbi, one of the assassins sent north to find Armando.—
Michael Snyder,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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