hit man

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Recent Examples of hit man By appearances, Leasure was not a plausible hit man, and explaining his motives was tricky. Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024 Once the group are in the air, though, Dockery's character slowly realizes her pilot is a hit man whose objective is to kill Grace's character. Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024 And these things don’t exist; hit men are created by movies. Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024 Reuniting with director Richard Linklater, who first capitalized on the actor’s mustachioed charm in Everybody Wants Some!, Powell plays a Houston professor turned cop who poses as a hit man, going undercover to bust anyone who tries to hire him. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for hit man 
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Noun
  • Most also carry lightweight weapons, such as depth charges and torpedoes, but generally other platforms are used to attack submarines.
    Reuters, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • This is a function of the inherent difficulty of defending against incoming ballistic missiles traveling at several times the speed of sound, not to mention dealing with stealthy cruise missiles and underwater torpedoes.
    Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
Noun
  • Every four years, ambitious consultants and hired guns sit down with aspiring presidents and sell them a lie.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Anderson has been healthy and active for well over a decade, but the band — which now features Seventies guitarist Steve Howe, Drama-era keyboardist Geoff Downes, and hired guns — refuses to take him back.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • Movie gods, hear our prayer: may cinematic murderers never remember to shut their blinds, amen.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • More to Read For Subscribers A child’s murderer could be freed.
    Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky, another of President Vladimir Putin’s hatchet men, advised Americans to vote for Donald Trump or risk being dragged into a nuclear war.
    Mitchell A. Orenstein, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2016
  • In the twenty-tens, the brothers took up solo careers; Malice converted to Christianity (becoming No Malice), as Pusha T became a hatchet man for Kanye West.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Nero is a cynical and surly assassin who is betrayed by his master and long-term ally.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Based on the classic 1971 novel of the same name, the series stars Eddie Redmayne as Jackal, an elusive lone assassin who makes a living carrying out hits.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit%20man. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

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