as in murderer
a person who kills another person shot down by an unknown assassin

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Recent Examples of assassin Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear. Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025 The player who so often can’t resist the attention that comes with the circus of his own making gets replaced with the steely assassin required to grasp the enormity of the task of taking on Alcaraz. Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025 Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2025 Like Reagan—who was shot by John Hinckley, Jr., barely two months after his inauguration—Trump has survived a brush with death at the hands of an assassin. Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for assassin 

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“Assassin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassin. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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