Thesaurus results for MURDERERS

murderers

noun

plural of murderer

as in assassins

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 murderers Benjamin Rush, the Philadelphia physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, opposed executing even murderers. — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026 Showing mercy to murderers historically has not been popular with voters. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 Widow’s Bay Sorry, but that murderers’ row of unpretentious acting talent isn’t going to be topped. — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026 All those players are expected to be back in attempt to win an AL West that was hardly a murderers’ row in 2026. — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026 But Ema does not solve mysteries or bring murderers to justice. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026 We are steeped in relativism, as confined by our narratives as the murderers are confined by theirs. — Robert Stone, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 Agent Mulder, hot on the trail of a group of murderers who are harvesting their victims' organs, breaks into a makeshift laboratory in an attempt to save an abducted woman. — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026 At his funeral back in Chicago, the boy’s mother, Mamie Till, insisted on an open casket so all the world could see what racist murderers had done to her only son. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

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The alleged plot targeting Pannun unfolded at the same time that Hardeep Singh Nijjar, another prominent Sikh separatist and friend of Pannun, was gunned down and killed in June 2023 by assassins outside his gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia.

— Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
As with the previous hour, which opened with the Russian assassins stalking River and Sid at the bowling alley, this episode picks up at the suspense cliffhanger of these same assassins peeling off with an abducted Sid in their car.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of assassins

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The Horsch house investigation raises questions about serial killers and whether mental health professionals can identify a person at risk of becoming one.

— David DeMatteo, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
Detectives worked to identify the killers, but the case eventually went cold.

— Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

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