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Recent Examples of perp
After an exchange of blows and pepper-spray, the trespasser ran off through an emergency exit — but not before sources said the perp stole the supervisor’s keys.
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Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 4 June 2025
Your documents are already encrypted, and the perps are already demanding untraceable payment in exchange for the decryption key.
—PC Magazine, 3 June 2025
When Elsbeth sits in on a rehearsal, she’s first dismayed by the script’s accusations of evidence planting, then delighted to see Mateo (probably her favorite perp to date), and finally, puzzled by how much the actors openly loathe their director.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 9 May 2025
The prejudiced perp took off on foot in an unknown direction.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
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Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 4 June 2025
Your documents are already encrypted, and the perps are already demanding untraceable payment in exchange for the decryption key.
—PC Magazine, 3 June 2025
When Elsbeth sits in on a rehearsal, she’s first dismayed by the script’s accusations of evidence planting, then delighted to see Mateo (probably her favorite perp to date), and finally, puzzled by how much the actors openly loathe their director.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 9 May 2025
The prejudiced perp took off on foot in an unknown direction.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perp
Noun
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Anti-crime priorities In his remarks, Abbott also unveiled some get-tougher-on crime proposals, including eliminating parole for criminals convicted of child trafficking.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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And despite promises by the administration to remove the worst criminals, ICE deportation data from Jan. 1 to June 24 shows most people who were removed or detained didn’t have a violent criminal record, CBS News reported.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
28 July 2025
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The man faces five criminal charges including unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon and criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.—
Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
31 July 2025
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Prosecutors also asked the federal court to dismiss separate criminal charges levied against Wiederhorn of being a federal felon in possession of a handgun and ammunition.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
30 July 2025
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During filming for his role as Denali, a rogue Comanche assassin in Antoine Fuqua’s 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven, cast members were given slushies during breaks.—
Ethan Bauer,
Rolling Stone,
3 Aug. 2025
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Soon our heroes are dodging would-be assassins at every turn.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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No matter, a crook is bound to try to convince you otherwise.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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The lanky suspect, who was caught on camera toting a backpack and carrying a paper shopping bag in the crook of his arm, attacked his first victim, a 25-year-old woman, at about 2:05 a.m. on May 17 at the border of SoHo and Greenwich Village, cops said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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But Palm Beach County’s friendly neighborhood sugar cane barons might yet make out like bandits.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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And the cast, in particular Clement as Pure Evil and Lisa Kudrow as the time bandits’ leader, Penelope, were all having a great time, giving the series an infectiously gleeful energy.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
23 July 2025
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New York City police officers lined city streets to honor their colleague who was killed when a gunman entered a Midtown Manhattan office building and opened fire earlier this week.—
Stephen Sorace , Pilar Arias,
FOXNews.com,
31 July 2025
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Hyman was the first victim laid to rest in the days after gunman Shane Tamara, 27, stormed the Park Ave. skyscraper, killed four people, and took his own life.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
31 July 2025
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Long romanticized by cinema (hello, Jack Sparrow), pirate imagery is sneaking into fashion shows, reinterpreted with with luxurious materials, high shafts, relaxed structure, and lots of buckles.—
María Munsuri,
Glamour,
27 July 2025
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The result was a very distinct split between those who figured out the game and stopped trading with the planet that produced the pirate spaceship, and those who did not.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
24 July 2025
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Its victims, malefactors, and investigators are largely without personality, their function being merely to leave or follow trails, and to wear out a reader with anticlimax after anticlimax.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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The sense of purpose that motivated Bush after 9/11, combined with his visceral antipathy to Saddam—who was, after all, one of the great malefactors of the modern age—brought moral clarity, as well as strategic myopia.—
Hal Brands,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Feb. 2023
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“Perp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perp. Accessed 9 Aug. 2025.
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