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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pillager
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Cargo theft has been around for centuries, evident for example in the train robbers of the late 1800s, but soaring demand for AI hardware has shifted heist targets to data centers and the technology’s ever-expanding infrastructure.
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The crux of the case stems from a 2019 armed robbery at a Virginia bank and how police tracked down the robber.
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Corporate raiders became the enforcers.
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For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.
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This Robin is a grizzled marauder who can’t even remember how many people he’s killed.
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There are 10 others — a bear, dragon, fox, knight, lion, marauder, mustang, red panda, watchman and wolf — that will be narrowed to a final three via a public voting process that ends Friday.
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The age of sail, when pirates like Johnny Depp’s fictional Jack Sparrow roamed the seven seas, ended about 200 years ago.
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Eight pages later, Leucippe has to fake her own beheading to escape from pirates.
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“Pillager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pillager. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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