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homicides

noun

plural of homicide
1
as in murders
the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life it was feared that the missing man was the victim of a homicide, but no clues as to his disappearance were ever found

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as in murderers
a person who kills another person throughout the ages society has stigmatized the homicide

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Recent Examples of homicides Next on the list is Los Angeles, with over 1 million more people, which saw 192 homicides. — John Schmidt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026 Charlotte had three homicides on Sunday, including one killing midday on the 300 block of East Trade Street. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2026 Los Angeles police have investigated several other homicides potentially tied to the Manson family. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026 City leaders have credited MONSE with helping contribute to a historic drop in homicides. — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026 Milwaukee Police crime data shows no homicides have been recorded in the neighborhood this year. — April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2026 Conahan was never charged with any other homicides, but a sheriff's office report about the investigation concluded that all of the victims discovered within a 10-mile (16-kilometer) radius were likely killed by the same person. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026 Thaw The Cold Cases isn’t connected with the Fort Worth Police Department’s Cold Case Unit, but the group aims to raise awareness about the city’s nearly 1,000 unsolved homicides and call for more resources to investigate them. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
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  1. murders
  2. murderers
  3. killings
  4. assassins
Noun
  • What remains disputed is whether those beliefs motivated the Tate-LaBianca murders or whether, as Berlinger argues, prosecutors elevated them into the central theory of their case.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The Scream saga began with a ringing phone and one of the most surprising murders in horror-movie history.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of murders
Noun
  • Agent Mulder, hot on the trail of a group of murderers who are harvesting their victims' organs, breaks into a makeshift laboratory in an attempt to save an abducted woman.
    — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The statement came after Roth detailed a sequence in the film to Polygon that features a cartoon that seemingly hypnotizes children, turning them into murderers.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of murderers
Noun
  • The Johnson County District Court sentenced Robinson to death for the killings of two women and to life in prison in Kansas for the killing of a third.
    — Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
  • Myung Jin Kim, 31, was wanted in connection with two killings, including a botched murder-for-hire plot in San Jose in 2016 and the killing of Kim’s friend in the parking lot of a CVS in Westminster two years later.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
Definition of killings
Noun
  • The settler assassins were arrested by the police and as usual released within a few hours.
    — David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Bannerman centers on the eponymous Paul Bannerman, a lethal covert operative who convinces a group of the world’s most deadly assassins to quit the spy game for a chance to lead normal lives in the suburbs of Connecticut.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of assassins

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“Homicides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homicides. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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