killer
Example Sentences
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Specifically, his proximity to Robert Ressler, a special agent said to have come up with the term “serial killers,” and who spent much of his career speaking with them.
From Los Angeles Times
I wondered who’d taught him not to fidget, because he was doing a killer impression of a statue.
From Literature
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“Complacency is a killer,” he told a crowd of about 50 last week at On the Kirb, an organic sports bar in the upmarket Houston neighborhood of Upper Kirby.
Instead of processing it on CODIS, they used another part of the DNA to search for potential relatives of the unknown killer in ancestry databases.
From Los Angeles Times
His older brother Billy has been seeking justice for years and believes there is enough evidence to identify the killer, saying it was "no ordinary murder".
From BBC
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