Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetrators
Noun
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The laws expand on prior legislation by increasing penalties for offenders and allowing vehicles to be towed for reckless driving.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
5 Nov. 2025 -
Police Chief Johnny Jennings decried repeat criminal offenders and said Mecklenburg County again needs a detention facility for teenagers during a lunch in south Charlotte on Tuesday.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The trio has a surprisingly good theory about the implosion of the makeshift Astral Pulse; seems like Shroud never found the original, and someone has been outfitting low-level criminals with bootlegs that are going awry like Robert’s.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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With spoofing tools, criminals can mimic real bank phone numbers and even use AI to reproduce familiar voices.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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 robbery lasted less than seven minutes, as the bandits used a truck with an extendable ladder to cut through a window on a second-floor balcony, according to police.—
Mason Leath,
ABC News,
27 Dec. 2025
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In return, a lord provided his peasants with protection from bandits or invaders.—
Bobbi Sutherland,
The Conversation,
19 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The Wisconsin Constitution bars convicted felons from holding public office.—
TODD RICHMOND,
Arkansas Online,
20 Dec. 2025
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The Wisconsin Constitution bars convicted felons from serving in public office, which includes judges.—
John Diedrich,
jsonline.com,
19 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Just like Scott said, there were a lot of pirates out there.—
Dan Morrison,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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The book, which is from Australia, follows Bee and her fellow runaways, who discover a new friend, Paco, is a Lost Boy from Neverland who needs them to fight hordes of pirates led by a merciless new leader.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Against Maduro and his crooks, who turn our country into a humanitarian crisis.—
David Unsworth,
FOXNews.com,
3 Jan. 2026
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The crooks of The Killing have pretty much anticipated everything — but the sheer unpredictability of human nature still destroys them.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
31 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The Sea of Excrement, with its bobbing malefactors, is especially memorable.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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On social media, Tan was pugilistic to the point of belligerence, casting his political enemies as corrupt malefactors responsible for the despoliation of his beloved city.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Perpetrators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrators. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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