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Recent Examples of hit man
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit man
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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
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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
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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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Movie gods, hear our prayer: may cinematic murderers never remember to shut their blinds, amen.Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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More to Read For Subscribers A child’s murderer could be freed.Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 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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Harris' lead is driven by older women voters and women independents. Nov. 3: Trump escalates violent rhetoric, suggesting at a Pennsylvania rally that an assassin would have to shoot through the news media to hit him.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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And during this year’s election, the FBI foiled a plot by Iran to pay an assassin $1 million to kill Donald Trump.Brian Bennett, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit%20man. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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