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Recent Examples of perp
Using two cantaloupes and some ketchup, Dexter demonstrates that the perp must have strangled his victim to death before dropping the body, accounting for the limited blood spatter.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Lori Loughlin has gone from pleading guilty in real life to busting perps on screen.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
Jamie pins the perp against the wall and, in a moment of poetic closure, Janko arrives and cuffs him using Badillo's handcuffs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
But even if your name is one in a million, a perp could offer up that name to the police, perhaps with a fake ID.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Lori Loughlin has gone from pleading guilty in real life to busting perps on screen.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
Jamie pins the perp against the wall and, in a moment of poetic closure, Janko arrives and cuffs him using Badillo's handcuffs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
But even if your name is one in a million, a perp could offer up that name to the police, perhaps with a fake ID.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perp
Noun
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Might be important later: the criminal was able to gain entrance to the White Lotus property when Valentin pulls up on his motorcycle to the security gate to chat with Gaitok, at the exact moment a random SUV containing the thief sails through.—
Dan Heching,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
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Williamson spends the entire movie moving from one L.A. locale and subculture to another, meeting a motley crew of criminals rich, scrappy, and everything in between, along the way.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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As a felon, he is prohibited from owning or possessing any firearms.—
Steven Mross,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Now, a federal judge has sentenced the woman, 46, to seven years and two months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute heroin, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a Feb. 14 news release.—
Julia Marnin,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The pint-sized assassin pulls a gun out of her fuzzy heart throw pillow and gets to work.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
18 Feb. 2025
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Assassin's Creed Shadows continues the everlasting war between noble assassins and shifty templars.—
Jordan Minor,
PCMAG,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried is serving a 25-year sentence in the SHU at the Brooklyn detention center.—
Katherine Fung,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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More… By hook or by crook, even with new owners Skydance bound to take over Paramount this year, there will be a fourth Sonic the Hedgehog with the studio dating it for March 19, 2027.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Robbery by bandits and natural disasters posed constant threats.—
Abdo Riani,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Those who bought Amazon in 1998, for example, or Tesla in 2012, or Nvidia in 2020 correctly foresaw the respective explosions of online shopping, EVs, and the AI revolution—and made out like bandits.—
Prarthana Prakash,
Fortune,
26 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Listen to this article The gunman who opened fire inside Pennsylvania’s UPMC Memorial Hospital — killing a police officer and wounding five others — faced the death of a loved one who’d been receiving treatment in the ICU in the days before the shooting.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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The alleged 26-year-old gunman, Luigi Mangione, is currently being held in a Brooklyn detention center.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Some of the pirates were already waiting there in speedboats.—
Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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Ozzy Osbourne could've been a pirate — and wife Sharon still regrets not letting him.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This keeps malefactors from abusing the service to snoop on private data other than their own.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
7 Jan. 2025
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If not properly secured, OTA updates may be intercepted and altered by malefactors, risking the reliability of the entire system.—
Klaudia Zaika,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2024
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“Perp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perp. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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