as in murderers
a person who kills another person
shot down by an unknown assassin
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Recent Examples of assassins
Perhaps the most controversial event was the killing off of John Dutton in a murder staged by assassins as a suicide.
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Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Trinity first established herself on the national stage as a contestant on Drag Race season 6 in 2014, ultimately placing seventh in the overall competition after excelling at the stand-up comedy challenge and cementing her legacy as one of the season's lip-sync assassins.
—EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Are there shadowy forces directing the hands of today’s political assassins?
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
Snoop is more perseverant than threatening here, though the short film accompanying Missionary nods to a bloody, Tarantino-esque Up in Smoke Tour clip as the rapper and producer play two telepathic assassins.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Jamie's freakout reaches new levels when Atwood, who was the only link to the assassins, is shot dead in her car, while Jamie is on the phone with her.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
All the while, the heroic couple was dogged by not just a team of lovebird assassins, but an inscrutable bunch of White House bigwigs.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 13 Dec. 2024
Season 1 saw Glover and Maya Erksine portray the eponymous assassins, who were quickly revealed to be just two in a vast network of gig-working specialists who all go by the codenames John Smith and Jane Smith.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
But society might be better off if some workers, like assassins, simply retire.
—Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Trinity first established herself on the national stage as a contestant on Drag Race season 6 in 2014, ultimately placing seventh in the overall competition after excelling at the stand-up comedy challenge and cementing her legacy as one of the season's lip-sync assassins.
—EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Are there shadowy forces directing the hands of today’s political assassins?
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
Snoop is more perseverant than threatening here, though the short film accompanying Missionary nods to a bloody, Tarantino-esque Up in Smoke Tour clip as the rapper and producer play two telepathic assassins.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Jamie's freakout reaches new levels when Atwood, who was the only link to the assassins, is shot dead in her car, while Jamie is on the phone with her.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
All the while, the heroic couple was dogged by not just a team of lovebird assassins, but an inscrutable bunch of White House bigwigs.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 13 Dec. 2024
Season 1 saw Glover and Maya Erksine portray the eponymous assassins, who were quickly revealed to be just two in a vast network of gig-working specialists who all go by the codenames John Smith and Jane Smith.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
But society might be better off if some workers, like assassins, simply retire.
—Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Assassins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassins. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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