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Recent Examples of privateer
Of these, Audi Motorsport reserved 20 for its program, sold 20 to privateer teams, and the remainder were offered on the market at about $80,000 each.
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2024
Hundreds of years later, they were found, proving that the ship and the cargo were indeed legitimate prey for privateers, at least according to the law at the time.
—The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The Africans sold into bondage in Virginia in 1619 (the event that prompted the New York Times’ 1619 Project, four centuries later) had been seized from a Portuguese slave ship by an English privateer carrying a Dutch letter of marque.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
But in the following century, states turned away from privateers because their extracurricular pillaging became too costly.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2024
Hundreds of years later, they were found, proving that the ship and the cargo were indeed legitimate prey for privateers, at least according to the law at the time.
—The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The Africans sold into bondage in Virginia in 1619 (the event that prompted the New York Times’ 1619 Project, four centuries later) had been seized from a Portuguese slave ship by an English privateer carrying a Dutch letter of marque.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
But in the following century, states turned away from privateers because their extracurricular pillaging became too costly.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for privateer
Noun
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First, down in Mechanical, Knox plans to rob Supply because raiders are blocking the stairs, and their Supply ally Carla is still incarcerated, so the Down Deep is running low on essentials.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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What a waste of effort for the rest of the raiders who weren’t a QB today.—
Vic Tafur,
The Athletic,
24 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The sheltering animals become a makeshift community of helpmates, but marauders onshore, and in the air, abound.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Nov. 2024
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In the story, that turmoil included tsarist marauders that disturbed, or pogrommed, Jews.—
Dave Gordon,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2024
Noun
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He was dressed in a pirate’s costume at the time in July 2015, Monroe County deputies said.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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But when he’s presumed dead after a tragic run-in with a pirate ship, our heroine is forced to take up with the spiteful Prince Humperdink—that is, until a masked man in black jumps in to save her.—
Gia Yetikyel,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2025
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Her approach is a clean break from the 19th-century tradition of American landscape art, in which de facto propagandists like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole depicted land as radiant and virginal, the birthright of any colonial buccaneer drunk on Manifest Destiny.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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Sporting a goatee, tricorn hat, purple vest and pantaloons, the bad-news buccaneer ambushed the victim near the station’s turnstiles, punching him repeatedly before making off with his AirPods and sneakers.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
1 Nov. 2024
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“Privateer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateer. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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