assassin
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Are you a silent assassin, a strategic mastermind or an agent of chaos?
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
One such role was Fuches, a mentor to Bill Hader’s assassin in HBO’s “Barry,” which earned Root his first Emmy nomination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The big reveal in the opening of the film—which rivals a James Bond pre-credit sequence in longevity, action and skiing through the Alps—is that the ruthless assassin ruining everyone’s Austrian vacation is a woman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The Surrey man is a more reserved character – an assassin rather than a warrior.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Sure enough, Cain was in the lead, and had taken the easiest path toward the flag, Grave and Verin on his trail, Nox close behind, and Pelor, the young assassin, not far below him.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
He was on the march "to demonstrate against the assassins of humanity", he added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Antony uses the opportunity to skillfully turn the Romans against the assassins, mocking Brutus as “an honorable man,” who had committed “bloody treason.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Osric Mordaunt, considered a dark magic user, is part of an order of assassins hated and dismissed by Aurienne Fairhrim’s light magic order of healers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
And, when that power comes on and pulls Scotland this way and that, enter the French assassins behind the scrum - all clever angles and deception, outrageous vision and ruthless execution.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025
It was only lately that he was having small moments of clarity, of illumination, and seeing himself for the first time as the closest of Mary Ann’s enemies, the kindest of her assassins.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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