as in assassins
a person who kills another person
the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
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Recent Examples of murderers
Nothing will slow us down from recruiting more officers to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from American communities.
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Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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
That case went cold as the murderers were never caught.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
The drugged murderers are disassociated in every sense.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
LaSota; Zajko, who was wanted for allegedly arming Maland’s murderers; and Daniel Blank, a third Zizian, were discovered holed up in box trucks, dressed in all black and heavily armed.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
Although the murderers are often characters with redeeming qualities, Nolan Hurst (David Cross) is more sympathetic than most, and his killing of toy store manager/part-time extortionist Patrick Palmer (Drew Seltzer) is an unpremeditated act of desperation, not the settling of a score.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
With the relentless coverage of the Murdaughs on national news, and certainly amid the plethora of podcasts and docuseries, many of the details about the family and Maggie and Paul’s murderers have long been public knowledge.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Hodge leads the cast in the titular role of Alex Cross, a brilliant homicide detective and forensic psychologist, uniquely capable of digging into the minds of murderers to identify and catch them.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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
That case went cold as the murderers were never caught.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
The drugged murderers are disassociated in every sense.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
LaSota; Zajko, who was wanted for allegedly arming Maland’s murderers; and Daniel Blank, a third Zizian, were discovered holed up in box trucks, dressed in all black and heavily armed.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
Although the murderers are often characters with redeeming qualities, Nolan Hurst (David Cross) is more sympathetic than most, and his killing of toy store manager/part-time extortionist Patrick Palmer (Drew Seltzer) is an unpremeditated act of desperation, not the settling of a score.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
With the relentless coverage of the Murdaughs on national news, and certainly amid the plethora of podcasts and docuseries, many of the details about the family and Maggie and Paul’s murderers have long been public knowledge.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Hodge leads the cast in the titular role of Alex Cross, a brilliant homicide detective and forensic psychologist, uniquely capable of digging into the minds of murderers to identify and catch them.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for murderers
Noun
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Presidential assassins and all this dark stuff.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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Up until then, slashers were silent assassins or a breather.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The Hillside Strangler case, which saw two serial killers terrorize Los Angeles in the late 1970s, is set to be explored in a new true-crime docuseries for MGM+.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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The message is that men will literally make acoustic concept albums about psycho killers instead of going to therapy.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Murderers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murderers. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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