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Recent Examples of tormentor The tormentor of a quarterback, whose two touchdown runs were eerily similar to those which fashioned Jeanty a household name and top 10 pick, makes the Bulls a larger blip on Florida’s radar than expected. Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025 Brown-Trickey was eventually suspended for standing up to her tormentors, while her white aggressors went unpunished. Time, 4 Sep. 2025 Fed up with her racist employer, Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard), in the Jim Crow-era south, Black housemaid Minny (Spencer) serves her tormenter the seemingly tasty treat. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025 Revenge is a piping-hot casserole, graciously presented to a lonely ex-tormentor. James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tormentor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tormentor
Noun
  • The documentary tells the true story of a teenage couple relentlessly bullied via text by an anonymous harasser.
    EW.com, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For decades, generals, coup-plotters, and torturers walked free under the shield of amnesty laws passed after the country’s 21-year dictatorship.
    Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Is the man actually his torturer?
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That’s quite a tease, not to mention a lot of pressure to put on her 12th release.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Living together in the Fear House, a group of strangers face OMG stunts, challenges, and a twisted game of social strategy, Banijay teases.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Donell Harvin, a homeland security and public health emergency expert at Georgetown University, told CNN on Sunday that the attacker may have conducted pre-operational surveillance and come up with a plan that maximizes fatalities and damage.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This prompted the attacker to run toward Arsenal Technical High School, east of downtown.
    Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The grounds once housed the elaborate palace of first century Roman Emperor Domitian, a persecutor of Christians.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The assailant stopped mid-speech and delivered two blows straight to Antao’s face.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The case drew international attention over allegations that Smollett had allegedly staged the attack and paid two bodybuilding brothers to pretend to be his assailants.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Tormentor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tormentor. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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