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Recent Examples of mobster In the new Amazon Prime series, Diamantopoulos’ mobster Mike Byrne teams up with Martindale’s maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry and Guillaume Cyr's security guard Remy Bouchard to pull a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus. Charna Flam, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025 Read Part 2: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance and Part 3: A mobster helped the feds arrest drug dealers. Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024 They are typically set in predominantly male worlds with traditionally masculine archetypes at the center: cowboys, ranchers, intelligence operatives, mobsters, fixers, oilmen. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024 Thom Christopher, the Daytime Emmy-winning actor who portrayed the mobster Carlo Hesser and his meeker twin brother, Mortimer Bern, on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, has died. Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mobster 
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Noun
  • Although the new government seems willing to listen to Alawite concerns, there’s a lingering resentment, with many pointing to the community’s complicity in torture and war crimes — whether in the security services or gangs of thugs known as the shabiha — over the 14 years of the conflict.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • There was a time, not long ago, when men who lifted weights for fun were seen as either thugs or narcissists.
    Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The bag has lots of money in it, the stranger is a violent gangster and Mady is soon on the run himself with a whole gang of bad guys after him.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The selection continues its genre focus with the Norwegian body horror The Ugly Stepsister, Turkish political thriller Confidante, and Taiwanese gangster narrative Silent Sparks.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • It’s widely expected that the administration will first seek to deport criminals who are in this country illegally.
    David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The only difference is that instead of Cuban casinos, today's criminals use mixing services and cross-chain bridges.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His affinity for wrestling villains, or heels, adds another layer to his potential return.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Like Adeyemi/Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist could become the villain of the whole race if someone doesn’t intervene to stop it.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Peter and Rose are then tossed into a world of conspiracy involving White House officials, a metro bombing, assassins, the vice president's daughter, and Peter's own father — who, according to official record, was a traitor to his country.
    Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The assassins were working for Gordon Wick (Ben Cotton), the real culprit behind the DC Metro bombing along with Vice President Redfield (Christopher Shyer).
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At least 49 businesses have been robbed so far in the spree, according to the United Bodegas of America (UBA) trade group, which is offering a $5,000 bounty on the bandits.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Several warring factions exist within the Zone, as well as lone bandits and stalkers.
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In the finale, the kids are able to contact the New Republic to warn them about the pirates, and permanently drop the barrier around the planet, revealing the existence of At Attin for the first time to the rest of the galaxy.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The port quickly became successful, attracting pirates, including the infamous Blackbeard, who used the island’s geography to launch surprise attacks on passing ships.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Mobster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mobster. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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