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hired assassins

noun as in death squad

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When a sitting vice-president says she has hired assassins to kill the president, and dreams of cutting off his head, you might think that country was in serious trouble.

From BBC

"Heavily armed sicarios arrived and this is what happened," said an unidentified man, using a word for hired assassins as he filmed at the resort in a video shared on the internet.

From Reuters

Six hired assassins and two executives of a firm promoting the dam's construction were later convicted.

From Reuters

The friend, an undercover agent with the ATF, tried to sell Rivera on his credentials, telling him he hung out with sicarios, Spanish for hired assassins, according to the complaint.

He talked about hired assassins and past C.I.A. experiments with brainwashing, and suggested that a violent attack on the home of a Second Amendment champion like himself had all the signs of an operation to justify more gun control.

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

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