killer

Example Sentences

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Police investigated the deaths for over a decade, and had been sitting on a tip that - once acted upon - led to the killer within weeks.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The first shot, so to speak, came in Anthropic’s conflict with the Pentagon after the company refused to have its technology used for fully autonomous killer drone storms and the mass surveillance of Americans.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

But like all slasher movies, the killer isn’t dead yet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Did the screenwriters toss around a dozen other playground games — killer dodgeball, killer cornhole, killer freeze tag — before sticking with the same hide-and-seek set-up?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Garfield hated watching men die from wounds, but the greatest killer of the Civil War was sickness.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow