Thesaurus results for MURDERER

murderer

noun

ˈmər-dər-ər

Definition of murderer

as in assassin

a person who kills another person the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

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Recent Examples of murderer Ditto Hugh Jackman’s unerring performance — perhaps his finest dramatic work yet — as a savage, unfeeling thug and unrepentant murderer and thief. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026 This psychological thriller stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia struggling to track down his wife’s murderer using a system of tattoos and notes. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 June 2026 Moscow has long portrayed UPA fighters as murderers and Nazi collaborators, and has accused Zelenskyy of being an heir to this legacy, falsely claiming that his government is overrun by Nazis as a pretext for its full-scale invasion. — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 27 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for murderer

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These artisans, with their trade secrets, were kept on Murano, a cluster of islands just across the lagoon from the city, ostensibly as a precaution against fire, though the state would also send assassins after anyone who tried to leave.

— Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
As a pirate assassin and post-apocalyptic warrior, Krem of the Yellow Hills connects with Aries.

— Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

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The series starred Melissa Roxburgh as a former FBI profiler who leads a team assembled to hunt down escaped killers who fled a mysterious prison.

— Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Carla Walker cold case The 1974 murder of 17-year-old Carla Walker in Fort Worth, Texas, went unsolved for more than four decades before advanced DNA testing helped investigators identify her killer.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026

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