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Noun
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However, a small spatter of blood on the outside of the box could potentially be the perp’s.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
24 Jan. 2025 -
Now, when someone tries to unlock your phone, Bitdefender will silently send you a picture of the perp.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
14 Jan. 2025
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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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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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Polls show skepticism remains about lone assassin theory The Justice Department and other federal government entities have reaffirmed conclusions that Oswald was solely responsible for the killing of the former president.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
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On October 7, Dekel Chen, 36, left his pregnant wife and two little daughters in the family safe room to go out and fight gunmen rampaging through the kibbutz.—
Nidal al-Mughrabi,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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The gunman reportedly fired a weapon into the air before shooting into the crowded party fatally striking the teenager.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
12 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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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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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
Noun
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Assemblymember Steve Bennett, D-Ventura, introduced AB 506, which would void contracts where people are required to put in a nonrefundable deposit for a dog or cat, and outlaw contracts where sellers don’t accurately identify where a pet came from.—
Andrew Sheeler,
Sacramento Bee,
12 Feb. 2025
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The covert link between Warhol and O’Neill suggests the presence, within the very space of law enforcement, of outlaw desires and secret commitments.—
Richard Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Perpetrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrator. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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