assassins

plural of assassin

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Recent Examples of assassins The Director also trains young girls to be ballerina-assassins, and one young ballerina (played by Unity Phelan) is shown rehearsing in the scene. Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025 For some reason, filmmakers have long been of the opinion that hired assassins are just like us, worried about such things as getting older and job security. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025 Capone was holed up in Florida at the time but is believed to have sent four assassins to take out Moran and his operatives. Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025 The young, female assassins in one scene are wearing miniskirts and dashing around in clacket-y colored heels, looking unusually stylish. Samantha Conti, WWD, 13 Feb. 2025 Kennedy, 71, has spent his lifetime in the spotlight since his Democratic uncle and father were felled by assassins’ bullets in the 1960s but now is set to take on his biggest role yet. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025 Scarlett Grey and Quinn Adams are rival assassins who often find themselves at each other’s throats… and in each other’s beds. Emily Martin, Them, 10 Feb. 2025 Other posts have urged assassins to target border personnel. Louis Casiano, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025 Unsurprisingly, the government pointed to leftists as the assassins. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025

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