raper

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  1. rapist
  2. predator
  3. robber
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  • Continue reading ⦠SOUTH OF THE BORDER â Dog the Bounty Hunter hunted Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico in 2003, now serial rapist is free.
    — , FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • More news The recent release of a serial rapist is garnering outrage in the San Gabriel Valley community where the man, who is an heir to a cosmetics fortune, is reportedly residing.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of rapist
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  • Because the outcome of sporting events holds significance to the athlete, the brain doesn’t distinguish between the threat of letting a team down by allowing a game-losing goal and a predator in the wild.
    — Jesse Granger, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • With few predators in these new habitats, a single fish can produce more than 2 million eggs a year.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of predator
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  • Romero retired from the NYPD as a detective in 2001, a year after he was shot while off duty by armed robbers at his family-run laundromat in Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told ABC New York City station WABC.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The series opens from the police perspective, but later the story rewinds and is told through the eyes of the robbers and and their hostages inside the bank.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of robber
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“Raper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raper. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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