poisoner
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poisoners
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"His main gripe with me is that he'll go down in history as a poisoner," Navalny told the court scornfully.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2022
I asked what he thought of the prospect of Mr. Lugovoi, the accused poisoner, running for mayor.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
Making his novel debut at the lively age of 89, Fo’s “The Pope’s Daughter” offers a studied reconsideration of Lucrezia’s life, swerving dramatically from accounts of her as “a monster, a poisoner, and a prostitute.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2015
"I think this rebuts all the speculation. No mother would send her son to be educated by the alleged poisoner of her husband. This is a very powerful testimonial."
From Reuters ● Jan. 30, 2014
“So the poisoner could just as easily have been after Dumbledore.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Super-recognisers have previously been used in the hunt for the Salisbury Novichok poisoners, as well as to track the movements of the Hillsborough disaster victims.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023
But Judge Owen dismissed accounts from the accused poisoners that Mr. Litvinenko had ordered the tea in the Pine Bar himself.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
The station aired an interview with the two suspected poisoners, who claimed to be members of the fitness industry touring Salisbury to see the cathedral there.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2021
As far as I can remember, none of these poisoners ends up in jail, and the victims apparently sustain no lasting damage.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2018
Inigo pursued him, hurrying past the poisoners, the spitting cobras and Gaboon vipers and, perhaps most quickly lethal of all, the lovely tropical stonefish from the ocean outside India.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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