suicide bomber
noun
: a person who commits suicide by exploding a bomb in order to kill other people
a suicide bomber
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Somehow, the music matches the nervous, revolutionary energy on screen: the unlikely sight of an angry Brooklyn patrolled by troops, hundreds of people clashing in the streets, a suicide bomber putting an abrupt punctuation to it all.
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Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Just last week, an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt among Taliban militia in the Afghan city of Kandahar, inflicting dozens of casualties, according to local accounts.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
More recently, in 2017 a suicide bomber from Kyrgyzstan killed 15 people as well as himself in an attack on a St. Petersburg subway.
—NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024
In 2022, an ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked the Russian embassy in Kabul, killing two employees.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
In the 2021 incident, a suicide bomber set off a blast near a checkpoint where Marines were checking the documents of people being allowed into the Kabul airport to escape the Taliban takeover of the country.
—NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
Related When a suicide bomber attacks the National Guard during a protest, Lee ends up shielding a young woman near the blast.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
His collection of on-stage collaborators (i.e., puppets) include a beer-swelling redneck yahoo and a dead, incompetent suicide bomber named Achmed, among others.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
In addition to child-killing, the play came with dismemberment, insanity, fellatio and rapes, with Dea violated by a son who is then blown up by a suicide bomber.
—Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Just last week, an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt among Taliban militia in the Afghan city of Kandahar, inflicting dozens of casualties, according to local accounts.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
More recently, in 2017 a suicide bomber from Kyrgyzstan killed 15 people as well as himself in an attack on a St. Petersburg subway.
—NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024
In 2022, an ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked the Russian embassy in Kabul, killing two employees.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
In the 2021 incident, a suicide bomber set off a blast near a checkpoint where Marines were checking the documents of people being allowed into the Kabul airport to escape the Taliban takeover of the country.
—NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
Related When a suicide bomber attacks the National Guard during a protest, Lee ends up shielding a young woman near the blast.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
His collection of on-stage collaborators (i.e., puppets) include a beer-swelling redneck yahoo and a dead, incompetent suicide bomber named Achmed, among others.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
In addition to child-killing, the play came with dismemberment, insanity, fellatio and rapes, with Dea violated by a son who is then blown up by a suicide bomber.
—Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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