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Recent Examples of marauder
Later, since the apartment remained unlocked, probably some marauders apparently stole all their kitchen appliances, electronics and other valuable family belongings.
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ABC News, 12 July 2025
With farmland so precious and marauders wandering about, former soldier Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) and her First Nations husband, Galen (Michael Greyeyes), run a tight ship with their family, which includes Hailey’s adult son, Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor).
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2025
The movies, by contrast, were still being made in Hollywood by marauders and lunatics.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Food was short, and if the marauders weren’t stopped, the entire population would starve.
—EW.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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ABC News, 12 July 2025
With farmland so precious and marauders wandering about, former soldier Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) and her First Nations husband, Galen (Michael Greyeyes), run a tight ship with their family, which includes Hailey’s adult son, Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor).
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2025
The movies, by contrast, were still being made in Hollywood by marauders and lunatics.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Food was short, and if the marauders weren’t stopped, the entire population would starve.
—EW.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marauder
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The Vikings were raiders, pirates, traders, explorers, and colonizers who traveled far beyond their homeland in Scandinavia between the 9th and 11 centuries.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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All that maritime commerce also attracted its fair share of Viking raiders from Scandinavia.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
25 Mar. 2026
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Police said the robber was seen leaving the area in a gray 2020 Cadillac CT6.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
3 Apr. 2026
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Yet key dramatic moments—a shooting, the robbers’ realization that the bank vault is empty—occurred in a hallway invisible to the audience, described secondhand.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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As this list reveals, English has been a welcoming recipient—though at times also a looter—of many words, commodities, and ideas from India that have transformed daily lives and speech in the Anglophone world.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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In some cases, the linear sections are convincing enough, but for the most part, Black Ops 7 feels like a mediocre looter shooter in structure and moment-to-moment gameplay.—
Fran J. Ruiz,
Rolling Stone,
18 Nov. 2025
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The alternately gloomy and euphoric pop songs cut and paste snippets of UK pirate radio culture and New York’s Paradise Garage.—
Aimee Cliff,
Pitchfork,
3 Apr. 2026
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While women pirates weren’t exactly a dime a dozen even during the height of piracy, there were a surprising number of fearless females who plied the seven seas.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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In 1688 the English buccaneer William Dampier explored New Holland’s northwestern coast.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 Mar. 2026
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French buccaneers spent much of the seventeenth century hiding and plundering along the northwest coast of Hispaniola, eventually realizing more money could be made farming tobacco and sugar.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Marauder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauder. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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