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killer

[kil-er] / ˈkɪl ər /


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Selected by Amin Ahmad, the author of the forthcoming novel “A Killer in the Family.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Idle and DuPrez wrote some 40 songs for the musical, many of them at a small studio in the Valley which they dubbed Killer Rabbit Studios.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

"That's where the nightmare began," she tells a new BBC documentary, Murder Case: The Hunt for Arlene Fraser's Killer.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

Investigators used genetic genealogy to identify Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 80s.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

It is only September and it is still hot in Paintbrush Falls, even if we are pretty far north, but Killer Man has decided, I guess, that the season dictates gray flannel.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe




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