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murderer

noun

ˈmər-dər-ər

Definition of murderer

as in assassin

a person who kills another person the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

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Recent Examples of murderer The writer Larry Kramer branded him a murderer in an open letter published in 1988. — Michael Collins, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026 The series’ pilot, co-written by show creators Ellis and Ryan Murphy, does an admirable job of introducing the characters and their fraught dynamics along with the threat of a murderer known only as the Trawler. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026 The statement came after Roth detailed a sequence in the film to Polygon that features a cartoon that seemingly hypnotizes children, turning them into murderers. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026 Not only did the scale of the broader violence across the South indicate a campaign to mass-murder an ethnic subgroup for political purposes, but Tillman, perhaps the most infamous of the Hamburg murderers, never denied the attack’s goals. — Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for murderer

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Sharlto Copley brings ferocious life to his role as an assassin, setting a record in the process for the most times one person can have his head explode in a single film.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026
Created by Tessa Coates, Ride Or Die centers on an assassin, Judith (Waddingham), whose best friend of more than 20 years, MP’s wife Debbie (Spencer), is pulled into her latest case.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026

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