perpetrator
Example Sentences
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Authorities are now investigating whether any of the deaths are related or the work of the same perpetrator.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
These arguments about legal standards for asylum shouldn’t result in a child being detained, because of the level of harm, and the perpetrator of the harm in the individual’s home country.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026
The memorials warned that fake content was also being created "specifically to dilute historical facts, shift victim and perpetrator roles, or spread revisionist narratives".
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
Then, a perpetrator arrived on Dec. 12 to collect the lobster shipment at a Taunton, Mass., cold-storage center, run by a third party, where a Rexing customer was storing the lobster.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
“So far, we have not the slightest clue as to the perpetrator of the crime.”
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
