perp

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Recent Examples of perp The agent delivered several defensive strikes to free his genitals from the perp’s grasp. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025 Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch. Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025 Olivia Benson will hug a victim and knock out a perp all before lunch. Yamillah Hurtado, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Robinhood rolled out its own perp offering in the EU a month earlier and is probably looking for a way to bring it stateside. Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for perp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perp
Noun
  • There was no immediate word on the identities of the perpetrator or the identify of the person who died.
    Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The fallout nearly destroyed American Express after it was left to make good on loans when the perpetrator declared bankruptcy.
    Nancy Cutler, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The unlawful taking of items from within a building which is either open to the general public or to which the offender has legal access.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2026
  • According to the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office, Gregory Keyier-Deniro Davis was also found guilty of four counts of felony firearm, felony assault, assault with intent to commit great bodily harm and habitual offender.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The scheme is designed to identify suspected criminals, combat identity fraud, and to police the EU's limit on 90-day stays within a 180-day period, according to the European Commission.
    Emma Clarke, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Rex Heuermann, the man known as the Gilgo Beach killer, admitted to killing eight women over a span of decades, and the FBI is now looking into what motivated the 62-year-old to carry out his crimes to help capture other criminals in the future.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In 2015, he was convicted as a habitual felon, which applied to individuals with multiple prior felony convictions.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Marcel Ware, 20, faces felony charges of possessing an assault rifle, gun and ammunition possession by a felon, and a misdemeanor count of resisting arrest.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Their efforts lead them in the season’s last two episodes to Paris, where Frank was planning to celebrate his 80th birthday with his children — only for him to be gunned down in a hotel lobby by an assassin who had been sent to kill Teddy for a deal gone wrong.
    Max Gao, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Neither of these two is necessarily a lip-sync assassin.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But the single-take fight scene that follows, as Lindsay, Ashley, and Austin fend off the chairwoman’s crooks, benefits from the roving camera.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Lopez said on top of it, the crooks also stole the catalytic converter from her personal car, which gets parked in the same lot, on Tuesday.
    Lauren Victory, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Williams hadn’t qualified but jumped in as a bandit – a practice that is prohibited now but happened more regularly back then (although it was frowned upon).
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
  • An unusual theft at a Pennsylvania Wawa has police going bananas for a pair of potassium bandits.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This particular law did not apply to the gunman in the Shreveport shooting, who did not have prior convictions for domestic abuse.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Florida’s attorney general on Tuesday opened an investigation into OpenAI’s ChatGPT over whether there was criminal behavior involving interactions between the artificial intelligence app and a gunman who killed two people and wounded six others last year at Florida State University.
    Mike Schneider, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026

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“Perp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/perp. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.

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