assassin
Example Sentences
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The judge Lord Mulholland described Hunter as a paid assassin and said the streets of Edinburgh and Scotland were not war zones.
From BBC
The assassin may have been lost to history by nearly everyone but Stephen Sondheim.
Unbeknownst to him, his adopted daughter is secretly a telepath and his fake wife is an assassin.
From Los Angeles Times
“Criminals, assassins ... they deserve beatings and the full force of the Mexican state.”
From Los Angeles Times
Then, as the story goes, Mangione’s photos were released, and the narrative shifted away from the motivation behind Thompson’s killing and toward his purported assassin’s appearance.
From Salon
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