noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mass murderer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
convicted
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Many a convicted murderer had displayed that sort of control.
mass
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But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer .
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That year, Esquire magazine sent contributing editor Philip Caputo to Stockton to discover what might have motivated the mass murderer .
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The art of a mass murderer .
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I was sitting with my feet up, watching a film about a puerto Rican mass murderer .
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The puerto Rican mass murderer was letting off a pump-action shotgun into a bus queue in downtown Los Angeles.
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Especially when I am watching puerto Rican mass murderers .
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Just one of those casual I-can-do-anything-I-want-any-time-I-want-and-make-you-like-it gestures so beloved of megalomaniacs, mass murderers and the Gunmint.
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The families of mass murderer Allitt's victims are also demanding that any inquiry be held in public.
serial
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One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer .
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But I never thought he was a serial murderer .
■ VERB
become
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Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rlta would rather her sons died than become murderers .
bring
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He attempted to bring Nahaman's murderers to justice.
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It's his job to bring the murderer of the old money-lender and her sister to justice.
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Now Benjamin had unmasked many a killer and brought numerous murderers to boot.
catch
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They hope that today's announcement of a £650 reward will bring them closer to catching the murderer .
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Dalziel had caught her murderer 19 years before.
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Now detectives can only hope that publicity surrounding the funeral will encourage some one to come forward and help them catch the murderer .
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No, I want to plot and catch an evil murderer .
convict
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The immorality of capital punishment does not lie in the sympathy level of a particular convicted murderer .
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It is time to indict, try and convict the murderers of Feb. 24.
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Sometimes, regrettably, though the idea may make us cringe, that voice may be that of a convicted murderer .
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That certainly is the case in Harris County, which sentences more convicted murderers to death than any other county.
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Another pro bono endeavor involves representing a convicted murderer from Indiana.
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President Truman ordered Clark to take every action to apprehend and convict the murderers .
find
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But, despite the new medical findings, police appear to be no closer to finding the murderer .
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Then they told me that the police had found the murderer .
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On the left, the problem of solving the King's death, of finding the murderer .
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She was being paid to find this murderer , and find him she would!
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Confusing stories are circulating along with rumours and half-truths as people, in their desperation, try to help find the murderers .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
serial killer/murderer etc
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Ex-Ornette Coleman sideman Ronald Shannon Jackson was on drums, occasionally adding creepy blues vocals worthy of a serial killer.
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Read the February issue of eve to find out, and discuss whether serial killers are born that way below.
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She enlists the help of psychiatrist / author Sigourney Weaver, an expert on serial killers.
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She escapes and later discovers that her attacker is a suspected serial killer.
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She is a serial killer who picks up men in the Métro.
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There are a lot of courtroom drama books and serial killer tales about, but this one is special.
would-be actor/murderer etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A convicted murderer was on the run last night after escaping from Lewes prison.
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a convicted murderer
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Do you think the police will ever catch her murderer ?
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In prison he enjoyed reading biographies of other mass murderers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rita would rather her sons died than become murderers.
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Might not a murderer , she wondered, erase the memory of the deed?
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Or put them in jail with murderers and hooligans all in the name of Karl Marx and Lenin.
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She did not like what she had been, murdered or murderer , victim or vampire.
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That year, Esquire magazine sent contributing editor Philip Caputo to Stockton to discover what might have motivated the mass murderer .
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The announcement shocked the nation, and many people hoped the murderers would be brought to justice.
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The Moors murderer Ian Brady, 62, has been denied the right to starve himself to death.
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What is there about a murderer that can make him so irresistible?