as in attackers
one who violently sets upon another
the darkness prevented me from getting a good look at my assailant
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Recent Examples of assailants
The assailants remain at large.
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Cameron Schoppa, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
The incident saw the Louvre shuttered Sunday and again Monday morning, with bewildered crowds evacuated from the area just after the assailants had struck.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
After Ricardo Rojas was shot dead near a gas station air pump, two assailants ran from the parking lot off of North Beach Street in Fort Worth near Gateway Park.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025
Three assailants were reportedly seen fleeing after the shooting.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
Morales grabbed a patio chair to fend off his attackers before running away with his assailants in tow, prosecutors said.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
Her case has not been solved, though a tape unearthed in 2004 provided some possible assailants, and nothing involving Gein, who was cleared of any connection later in 1957.
—Jr Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Two assailants, Devon Erickson, then 18, and accomplice Alec McKinney, then 16, carried out the attack.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
Despite the weather getting cooler, some of the pesky garden assailants are ramping up their activity.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Cameron Schoppa, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
The incident saw the Louvre shuttered Sunday and again Monday morning, with bewildered crowds evacuated from the area just after the assailants had struck.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
After Ricardo Rojas was shot dead near a gas station air pump, two assailants ran from the parking lot off of North Beach Street in Fort Worth near Gateway Park.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025
Three assailants were reportedly seen fleeing after the shooting.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
Morales grabbed a patio chair to fend off his attackers before running away with his assailants in tow, prosecutors said.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
Her case has not been solved, though a tape unearthed in 2004 provided some possible assailants, and nothing involving Gein, who was cleared of any connection later in 1957.
—Jr Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Two assailants, Devon Erickson, then 18, and accomplice Alec McKinney, then 16, carried out the attack.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
Despite the weather getting cooler, some of the pesky garden assailants are ramping up their activity.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assailants
attackers
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Security firm LayerX discovered a potentially major vulnerability in the ChatGPT Atlas browser that allows attackers to inject malicious instructions into ChatGPT’s memory.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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Reducing your digital footprint limits the amount of information that phishing attackers can use to make fake emails look convincing.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Assailants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assailants. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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