Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Shanti is a sniper assassin of untouchable criminals, and Sekhmet is a conflicted war criminal who's rumored to kill anyone, if sufficiently enraged.
Source: World of Action Girls -
The police suspect that the criminal group the men were working for hired a sniper to kill them.
Source: Improbable Aiming Skills - Also, it's programming apparently didn't include distinguishing between criminal and legal uses of force and thus it shoots dead a police sniper who's aiming at a man who's taken hostages.
Source: Fiction Isn't Fair
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Sniper and Criminal. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/criminal/sniper
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