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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit men
Noun
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Two big fish shot by like titanium torpedoes.—
Susan Casey,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026 -
China’s new underwater drone toys The drones are likely intended to be armed with conventional submarine armaments like mines and torpedoes, but could also act as motherships for other drones, too.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Nothing will slow us down from recruiting more officers to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from American communities.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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These officers risk their lives every day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists and gang members from our communities.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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When a father seeking vengeance, an American operative experiencing a string of bad luck, and several independent assassins hailing from around the world all end up on the same bullet train bound for Kyoto, the results are violent — and the survivors minimal.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Dec. 2025
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The situation gets more complex with the addition of a bunch of oddball assassins trying to murder the neighbor, plus other mysterious and shady types like his former associate Laverne (Weaver).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
11 Dec. 2025
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