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Recent Examples of mobster Naomi Watts had her Hollywood breakthrough as an aspiring actress in LA who befriends a woman (Laura Elena Harring) suffering from amnesia after a car accident, and the two come on the radar of a smarmy film director (Justin Theroux) who's being threatened by mobsters. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 As The National Museum of Organized Crime & Law Enforcement wrote in a 2022 article concerning the movie's development, mobsters Genovese and Costello worked for the Luciano crime family. Tommy McArdle, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025 That summer, the Emirates extradited an Italian drug trafficker and mobster who had been living in Dubai for years. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 But the precise slices suggest that Paulie possesses the meticulousness that aided old school mobsters in tasks like buying bodies where nobody could find them or keeping track of drug shipments. Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mobster 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mobster
Noun
  • The investigation leads Cole into an ugly world of red-neck thugs and disappeared girls.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2025
  • How many of you recall the TV image on Jan. 6, 2021, of Officer Daniel Hodges, squashed in a revolving door at the U.S. Capitol, screaming for help as MAGA thugs beat on his head?
    Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Three Thai women were rescued after a group of Chinese gangsters enslaved them in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in order to harvest their eggs.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Ball of Fire also pairs up a gangster’s moll, Sugarpuss O’Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), and a professor, Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) who work together trying to take down her mob boss boyfriend, all while falling in love.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Many citizens have come to believe that for too long, the rights of criminals have trumped the rights of citizens to be safe and free from violence.
    Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Mosby, like other progressive prosecutors, bent laws to tilt the scales of justice in favor of criminals in the name of reform.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His music has served as a vehicle for haunting, bombastic fantasies, often with himself as the villain.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The actor was also fired from his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the villain Kang the Conqueror, who was originally intended to feature in the next two Avengers films.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Unsurprisingly, the government pointed to leftists as the assassins.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Trump had nearly been killed by an assassin’s bullet at a Pennsylvania rally, an act that hit close to home for Kennedy, whose father was assassinated on the Presidential campaign trail.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This location can be found north of Tachov in the forests beside a bandit camp.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The bandit wheeled and snarled at Herod, exposing his rotting front teeth.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Who didn't want to be like those kids going on adventures involving gangsters, pirate ships and best friends?
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Like a ‘pirate ship’ Goss has done four separate stints as a guardian in London, in an empty police station, a nursing home for the elderly, a student residence hall and, finally, a town hall.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025

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“Mobster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mobster. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.

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