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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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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

Lyle Lovett performed Friday evening in Stagecoach’s Palomino tent with the group of killers he calls his Large Band.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

But most of us will become more susceptible to killers like cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s as we get older.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 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

The Department of Agriculture, in a Home and Garden Bulletin, advises us to spray our clothing with oil solutions of DDT, dieldrin, chlordane, or any of several other moth killers.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson