torturers

plural of torturer

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Recent Examples of torturers 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 Each regime, from the Pahlavi dynasty to the Islamic Republic, claimed to uphold human rights and castigated its predecessors as torturers, only to ratchet up the incarceration of political opponents. Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for torturers
Noun
  • The mind could wander briefly about the Giants riding a two-game winning streak into a Thursday Night Football matchup with the Eagles, equipped to knock off their tormentors who suddenly look vulnerable.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There appears to be no limit to his sensitivity or his determination to humble his tormentors.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But the levels to which James and Swift have pushed the envelope even further with their teases this month.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The movie follows Modigliani in Paris in 1916, and a trailer for the film released back in October 2024 teases a chaotic romp through France's capital.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Using it to describe this week’s attack on Huwara – or other similar attacks in Israel or Palestine – effectively puts Israel in the place of the Jews’ historic persecutors.
    Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • Researchers had previously assumed attackers would need to corrupt a specific percentage of the data, which, for larger models would be millions of documents.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Each connected device is a potential entry point for attackers, so keeping the list limited reduces your network's exposure.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Torturers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torturers. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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