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triggermen

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plural of triggerman

as in murderers

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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
At his funeral back in Chicago, the boy’s mother, Mamie Till, insisted on an open casket so all the world could see what racist murderers had done to her only son.

— Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

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In November 2024, assassins on a motorcycle in the Pacific port city of Manzanaillo shot dead a rear admiral who was said to have blown the whistle on navy entanglement in fuel-smuggling.

— Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
The young women acted as underground assassins, seducing Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026

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Each vessel will be able to carry 12 Trident II D5 missiles for nuclear deterrence, alongside torpedoes for anti-ship missions.

— Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026
Their modular design allows rapid adaptation, deploying diverse payloads like torpedoes, air drones, and rockets.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

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The film remains as fever dreamy as ever, now with scenes that amplify the tension between the men on either side of the FBI-and-killers divide.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Rawson has become a bestselling author and advocate for victims of violent crime since her father's 2005 arrest, writing and speaking publicly about growing up as the daughter of one of America's most notorious serial killers.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026

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