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Recent Examples of privateer
The ghost ship of Harpswell had been the privateer Dash, which had been lost at sea after compiling its remarkable record.
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Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
The muse, known as Lucybelle II, was a rare privateer entry that demonstrated the determination of non-factory teams.
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Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
18 Sep. 2025
Those 64 ships had 1,242 guns, compared to 14,872 privateer guns.
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Rick Bennett,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
But it was captured by a British privateer and departed for Jamaica, crammed with 442 enslaved people.
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Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
The muse, known as Lucybelle II, was a rare privateer entry that demonstrated the determination of non-factory teams.
—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
18 Sep. 2025
Those 64 ships had 1,242 guns, compared to 14,872 privateer guns.
—
Rick Bennett,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
But it was captured by a British privateer and departed for Jamaica, crammed with 442 enslaved people.
—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for privateer
Noun
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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.
Noun
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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.
Noun
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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.
Noun
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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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The looter’s story only came to light thanks to Bradley Gordon, an American lawyer based in Cambodia who has spent much of the last 14 years investigating the plunder of Khmer cultural heritage.
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Borderlands 4 is an amusing looter-shooter that supports solo play or up to four-player co-op.
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Photos and videos of the interior reveal buccaneer style down to the most minute details, like octopus tentacle door handles.
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Though nobody's quite sure how the buccaneer came to be or what his name is.
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“Privateer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateer. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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