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killers

NOUN

murderer

Synonyms

STRONG

assassin butcher executioner exterminator hunter slayer

WEAK

cut-throat gunman/woman gunperson hit person hit-man/woman

Example Sentences

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It is increasingly understood as a quiet, common, and dangerous disorder that can be detected earlier, treated sooner, and linked closely to some of the world's biggest killers.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

Ford, who escaped two would-be killers in less than one month, only narrowly lost the 1976 election despite running in the shadow of Watergate.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2026

Her family said the ruling "ripped up" Helen's Law, which places a legal duty on the Parole Board to consider the suffering caused by killers who refuse to disclose where their victim is buried.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

The two suspected killers, Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams, sat fiddling with their phones on a trailer hitched to Boyd’s white Ram TRX.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

“These puffers, Rush, are the only killers of scandal,” Adams noted.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis