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perpetrator

noun as in murderer

noun as in wrongdoer

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"Documents or expert reports by Nazi perpetrators that were offered at the auction are not for private collections," German State Minister for Culture Wolfram Weimer told German news agency DPA.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the attack a "conspiracy", and his government vowed to bring the "perpetrators, their collaborators and their sponsors" to justice.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the attack a "conspiracy", and his government vowed to bring the "perpetrators, their collaborators and their sponsors" to justice.

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As part of the investigations, experts will also seek to identify perpetrators in order to hold them to account.

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He had been told to complete a domestic abuse perpetrators programme before having unsupervised contact, but he had not.

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

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