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Recent Examples of triggermanThree people, including a 65-year-old man, were hospitalized early Saturday after a teen triggerman blasted away at a rival in Times Square, officials said.—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2025 The triggerman is a 13-year-old orphan named Lucas Hollister (Patrick Scott McDermott, making the most of this grim opportunity), whose younger brother depends on him to protect their late parents’ Wyoming ranch from wolves and other predators.—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 May 2025 Joe Budden is skeptical that Tory Lanez was the triggerman with intentions of shooting Megan Thee Stallion during the dispute in 2020 that led to the Canadian singer being sentenced to a decade behind bars.—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for triggerman
The main competition has in the Limited Series category now that The White Lotus has been booted out is Adolescence, the huge hit on Netflix about a teen murderer that featured incredible performances and four, one-shot episodes that practically seemed impossible to film.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
He’s joined by another (somewhat literal) murderers’ row of actors including Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, and Thomas Haden Church.
The prominent conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was struck in the neck by an assassin’s bullet.
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W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
The search for Kirk’s assassin entered its third day Friday, with officials releasing new still photos of the person of interest, along with video of the person fleeing the scene after the shooting.
Director Edward Berger designed the experience to evoke visceral tension: rain droplets, torpedo corridors, and claustrophobic realism blur the line between viewer and scene.
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Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
The Newport News is additionally equipped with advanced sonar to support surveillance as well as Harpoon anti-ship missiles and Mark 48 torpedoes for potential interdiction of surface ships.
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Amir Daftari
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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