perpetrators

plural of perpetrator

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetrators
Noun
  • Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of a sense of outrage leading to a search for a better solution for repeat violent offenders, her death generated calls for collective retribution and vigilante justice.
    Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our research suggests that the vast majority of Republican voters want to close loopholes that allow criminals and dangerous people to get their hands on guns.
    Gabby Giffords, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The days of letting dangerous criminals terrorize American citizens are over.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The plane is filled with assassins assigned to kill them both.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The two Kill Bill films, while still about crime and criminals and ninja assassins, set themselves apart from his earlier works.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over $200 Off NFL Sunday Ticket NFL fans can make out like bandits with the DraftKings Sportsbook welcome offer.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern were cast as the bumbling but dogged bandits, Harry and Marv, and Catherine O’Hara brought humor and compassion to the part of Kevin’s mother.
    Tim Greiving, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As soon as he was convicted, huge numbers changed their minds and soon 58% thought felons should be able to be president.
    Sarah Stein Lubrano, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • According to the plea agreement, Manning and his co-conspirators trafficked at least 22 firearms to people who were known felons or sold guns that had been converted into unregistered machine guns.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That’s when Billy, a conman serving a debt of service to the pirates, burst through the crowd, yelling at the blaster men.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, the characters in science-fiction movies and TV shows who traveled on spaceships tended to be scientists, explorers, diplomats, soldiers, and pirates.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Your report just might help the cops catch the crooks.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The potential for a showdown over crime in Chicago – not just between law enforcement and crooks but between the federal government and city leaders – is escalating.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Either way, The Lowdown finds Harjo dipping into pleasantly familiar reservoirs of fiction in which the protagonists know how to take a constant beating, the malefactors are all suspiciously verbose and ostentatious hats abound.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Perpetrators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetrators. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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