ninja

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While 3 on 2 seems like good odds, the team hit a terrible snag when a 5th sound prodigy appears to take control of Sasuke's carriage, and this ninja is a far more formidable enemy than Naruto and company could possibly have imagined running into.

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  1. noun A member of a class of 14th-century Japanese mercenary agents who were trained in the martial arts and hired for covert operations such as assassination and sabotage.

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  • Poetry News: ... is enforced by a ninja, and then they are given a score by five judges from the audience that have NOTHING to do with poetry. —  GotPoetry.com News
  • While 3 on 2 seems like good odds, the team hit a terrible snag when a 5th sound prodigy appears to take control of Sasuke's carriage, and this ninja is a far more formidable enemy than Naruto and company could possibly have imagined running into. —  DVD Times
  • "He has been described as looking like a ninja," said Sandra Berchtold, a special agent and media coordinator for the FBI Detroit Field Office. —  hometownlife.com - News-Berkley
  • They have shown up at the site of the planned mass killing armed to the teeth, dressed in camouflage or black "ninja" - style clothing, and in the case of Jiverly Wong, wearing body armor. —  People's Weekly World Blog
  • BlackBerry Thunder caught on video, with a ninja - Filed under: Cellphones BREW Ninja, who readily (and oddly for a ninja) enough admits that he's a mobile QA engineer over at Yahoo! —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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  1. Japanese : nin, to endure + ja, person (from Middle Chinese tšiaʔ).
 

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