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as in hired gun
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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.
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A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
During the 1980s, capturing the elder Matar became a top priority for the Libyan regime, which sent hit men abroad to find him.
—Robert F. Worth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2017
In his latest film, Hit Man, Powell stars as a professor who moonlights as a fake hit man in police stings.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 June 2024
When Gupta asked the source to put him in touch with a hit man, the source connected him with another undercover DEA agent, according to investigators.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
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A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
During the 1980s, capturing the elder Matar became a top priority for the Libyan regime, which sent hit men abroad to find him.
—Robert F. Worth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2017
In his latest film, Hit Man, Powell stars as a professor who moonlights as a fake hit man in police stings.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 June 2024
When Gupta asked the source to put him in touch with a hit man, the source connected him with another undercover DEA agent, according to investigators.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
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One of the Northern Fleet’s submarines had sunk, in 1989, and hadn’t been salvaged; its reactor lay at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, along with two torpedoes with nuclear warheads, corroding in salt water.Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Faster is vital, because in their watery graves, the many land and naval mines, U-boat torpedoes, depth charges, artillery shells, chemical weapons, aerial bombs, and incendiary devices have corroded over almost 80 years.Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
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Every four years, ambitious consultants and hired guns sit down with aspiring presidents and sell them a lie.Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
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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
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Strode survived the terror of murderer Michael Myers (Nick Castle) and Curtis, 65, would return as the character in six Halloween sequels, wrapping up the character’s arc in 2022’s Halloween Ends.Victoria Edel, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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In that same episode, Eva Longoria, Zach Galifianakis and Eugene Levy suggest to Mabel, Oliver and Charles that perhaps this murderer is someone who’s been around since the beginning of the show.Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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That said, this installment trades a little plot for a lot of action while diving deeper into the underground world of the assassins’ guild.Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Wick was originally written to be in his early sixties, but the script still centered around the retired assassin’s vengeful pursuit after his recently deceased wife’s parting gift of a puppy was murdered during a home invasion and car theft.Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit%20man. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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