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Recent Examples of assailant
This appeared to be an assailant that knew her very well.
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Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2025
No arrests have been made, and the police have posted security camera footage of an assailant in an effort to get tips about the case.
—Hank Sanders, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2025
What begins as yet another gunfight morphs into a horror-movie scenario: Reacher covers his face in mud like Arnold at the end of Predator and kills the last of his assailants by strangling him using a winch mounted on one of the ATVs.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Blaming it for costing the state money is tantamount to punching someone in the nose and then suing them for bloodstain damage to the shirt of their assailant.
—Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2025
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Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2025
No arrests have been made, and the police have posted security camera footage of an assailant in an effort to get tips about the case.
—Hank Sanders, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2025
What begins as yet another gunfight morphs into a horror-movie scenario: Reacher covers his face in mud like Arnold at the end of Predator and kills the last of his assailants by strangling him using a winch mounted on one of the ATVs.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Blaming it for costing the state money is tantamount to punching someone in the nose and then suing them for bloodstain damage to the shirt of their assailant.
—Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Assailant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assailant. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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