assassin
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This is indeed a 19th-century term, but the baseball usage dates from the early 1880s: The word rose in prominence with the trial of Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James Garfield.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Senior presidential adviser Stephen Miller called Pretti a "would-be assassin".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026
Hence, he survived much longer than he should have by convincing his prey, including Zac Efron’s wide-eyed brother Dylan, that he’d be too obvious an assassin.
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026
Credits at the end of “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” attribute the creation of the Bride assassin to “Q & U” — stark-white capital letters that stand in for Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Back at Ford’s Theatre, the manhunt for Booth almost ended before it began when one man, an army major, rose from his front-row seat to pursue the assassin.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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