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- noun Plural form of
ringleader .
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Examples
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While dozens of people have been arrested in recent months, including some identified as ringleaders, India's underfunded and often ill-trained security agencies haven't been able to stop the attacks.
Latest News 2008
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While dozens of people have been arrested in recent months, including some identified as ringleaders, India's underfunded and often ill-trained security agencies haven't been able to stop the attacks.
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While dozens of people have been arrested in recent months, including some identified as ringleaders, India's underfunded and often ill-trained security agencies haven't been able to stop the attacks.
Latest News 2008
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Ten people were arrested, including two identified as ringleaders who were said to have ties to a figure "dispatched from abroad" to conduct terrorist activities in Xinjiang
Digest 2010
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Ten people were arrested, including two identified as ringleaders who were said to have ties to a figure "dispatched from abroad" to conduct terrorist activities in Xinjiang
Digest 2010
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Presumably the "childish mind" bit is to make it more scary; Bobby and Cindy make the initial capture, but the ringleaders are the three older teenagers who are not literally children nor even "childish".
Mendal Johnson (part 1) Ray Girvan 2004
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And remember here, now, Betty, these are crucial, two figures that U.S. sources have described as the ringleaders, the pilots, really the masterminds behind the September 11th plot.
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He said that the ringleaders were the former manager of the bank involved in the scandal, Vicente Ramaya, and brothers Nini and Ayob Abdul Satar.
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Presumably the "childish mind" bit is to make it more scary; Bobby and Cindy make the initial capture, but the ringleaders are the three older teenagers who are not literally children nor even "childish".
Archive 2004-10-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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The reason I was there was one of the ringleaders was a guy who got sent up, or sent down, depending on how you look at it, because of an article I wrote on him.
Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001
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