triggerman

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Recent Examples of triggerman Namely, that Smith and not Anderson was the actual triggerman that night in retaliation for the beatdown at the MGM. John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024 Jones set a status check-in for Nov. 7, when a trial date is expected to be made. Davis, former leader of the South Side Crips in Compton, Calif., allegedly passed the murder weapon, a .40-caliber handgun, to his nephew and suspected triggerman Orlando Anderson. John Smith, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023 He was arrested after triggerman Henry Arthur Tenon, 62, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, court records show. CBS News, 21 Aug. 2023 James Howard Jackson, 20, was the triggerman in the shooting of Ryan Fischer on Feb. 25, 2021, as Fischer was walking Lady Gaga’s three French bulldogs on Sierra Bonita Avenue in Hollywood. Noah Goldbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for triggerman 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triggerman
Noun
  • Israel will try to save the life of Kfir Bibas— the red-haired baby who has spent most of his life in captivity—in exchange for unrepentant murderers.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Avoiding trial also uses fewer government resources and spares the victims' families from having to re-live the horror in court – or seeing the murderers continue to smirk and joke around.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 16 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
  • Just the forward battery compartment and the torpedo compartment.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Browse more than 100 independent specialty shops and watch artists work at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, an artists’ collective located in a former WWII torpedo factory.
    Linnea Bailey, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Two brothers who were convicted in the 1991 rape and murder of a tourist in Hawaii filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that the police had framed them and then bungled an investigation that could have brought the true killer to justice.
    Simon J. Levien, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The real killer, Rudy Guede, got off with a light sentence.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Triggerman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triggerman. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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