as in murderer
a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Harris' lead is driven by older women voters and women independents.
Nov. 3: Trump escalates violent rhetoric, suggesting at a Pennsylvania rally that an assassin would have to shoot through the news media to hit him.
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Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
And during this year’s election, the FBI foiled a plot by Iran to pay an assassin $1 million to kill Donald Trump.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
The series is based on the classic 1971 novel of the same name about the assassin who finds his match in a determined British intelligence officer hunting him down.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The first would-be assassin died at the scene when a Secret Service agent who was positioned as a sniper shot him in the seconds after the shooter hit Trump.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024
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Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
And during this year’s election, the FBI foiled a plot by Iran to pay an assassin $1 million to kill Donald Trump.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
The series is based on the classic 1971 novel of the same name about the assassin who finds his match in a determined British intelligence officer hunting him down.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The first would-be assassin died at the scene when a Secret Service agent who was positioned as a sniper shot him in the seconds after the shooter hit Trump.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Assassin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassin. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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