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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Based on Nick Harkaway’s novel The Price You Pay, the show follows Jackie Price, a former drug queenpin hunted by seven elite assassins.

— Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026
The final sequence bookends the first with River, Sid, and Coe once again being stalked by the assassins but this time getting the worst of it.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026

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Prosecutors described a subculture within that online network that glorifies mass killers and encourages imitation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Since the nineteen-nineties, a Korean New Wave had been praised for embedding capitalist critique in movies packed with monsters, slithering octopuses, killers, and killer cops.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

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