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assailant

noun as in attacker

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They were exonerated more than a decade later through DNA evidence and a confession from the true assailant.

In July, an assailant injured a Japanese national in eastern China by throwing an object that appeared to be a rock.

The assailant was shot dead by British police but not before he stabbed and killed a man and tried to barge into the synagogue itself, where worshipers were hunkered down.

And it was community volunteers and private security guards who held back the doors against the assailant, after he rammed the gates with a car and then attacked worshippers with a knife.

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Woods alleged Caden did this to “continue the ruse,” adding that authorities believe, “There is zero chance that Caden’s gunshot wound came from any type of an assailant.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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