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Recent Examples of perp
The agent delivered several defensive strikes to free his genitals from the perp’s grasp.
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025
Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
—Yamillah Hurtado, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Robinhood rolled out its own perp offering in the EU a month earlier and is probably looking for a way to bring it stateside.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025
Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch.
—Yamillah Hurtado, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Robinhood rolled out its own perp offering in the EU a month earlier and is probably looking for a way to bring it stateside.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perp
Noun
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Colman Domingo put his considerable fashion bona fides into a sketch on last night’s Saturday Night Live about FIT students trying to describe the perpetrator of an armed robbery.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
12 Apr. 2026
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One officer discharged his firearm, striking the perpetrator twice.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Preliminary investigation indicated that an unknown offender pulled out a gun and shot into a crowd of people who were standing outside, hitting three of them.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Surprisingly, the worst offenders are often the most traveled.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The scheme is designed to identify suspected criminals, combat identity fraud, and to police the EU's limit on 90-day stays within a 180-day period, according to the European Commission.—
Emma Clarke,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Apr. 2026
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Rex Heuermann, the man known as the Gilgo Beach killer, admitted to killing eight women over a span of decades, and the FBI is now looking into what motivated the 62-year-old to carry out his crimes to help capture other criminals in the future.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Vargas was taken into custody without incident, the news release said, and has been charged with armed violence, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and other weapons- and cannabis-related offenses.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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Larrel Martin Weathers, 39, was convicted Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court of second-degree murder, shooting at an inhabited dwelling and being a felon in possession of a firearm in the June 21, 2021, shooting death of Marcellus Cory Baker-Lee.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Their efforts lead them in the season’s last two episodes to Paris, where Frank was planning to celebrate his 80th birthday with his children — only for him to be gunned down in a hotel lobby by an assassin who had been sent to kill Teddy for a deal gone wrong.—
Max Gao,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2026
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Neither of these two is necessarily a lip-sync assassin.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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James Marsden proudly makes his debut as said neighbor, Owen Ashe, a charming billionaire whose arrival in Westmont Village poses an imminent threat to everyone's favorite crook.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
3 Apr. 2026
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Coughing into the crook of her elbow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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An unusual theft at a Pennsylvania Wawa has police going bananas for a pair of potassium bandits.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2026
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Set against mountainous landscapes and rural lakes, the story follows a wandering swordsman who is falsely accused of stealing a shipment of gold and must unravel a web of intrigue involving bandits, palace guards and corrupt officials while attempting to clear his name.—
Lin Ying-Hsuan,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Security footage shows principal tackling gunman Security camera footage released on April 14 shows the moment the suspect entered the school lobby carrying a gun.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Moore pushes the gunman onto a bench and holds him down before another staffer helps kick the weapon away.—
Skyler Henry,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Perp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perp. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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