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Recent Examples of rapine
If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine.
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Rich Lowry,
National Review,
25 Feb. 2020
There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
13 Mar. 2013
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
25 Feb. 2020
There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.
—
Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
13 Mar. 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapine
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The people who've made it out are telling us horror stories of mass killings, of rape and pillage of women and families.
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Vikings, for example, used the extra daylight to sneak in a longer pillage sesh.
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At least four people have been killed as violence and looting spread across the country, Reuters reported.
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Last year, the NCMM received 113 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands—the largest single return of Benin antiquities directly linked to the 1897 British looting, according to the commission.
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Some have traveled farther as part of colonial-era collections — as far as the British Museum — and been returned; a story unto itself about the plundering of the natural world in the age of empire, and institutions reckoning with their inheritance.
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Living through the aftermath of Rome’s plundering in 410 by the Visigoths, Augustine keenly appreciated the fact that empires come and go.
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On social media, Tan was pugilistic to the point of belligerence, casting his political enemies as corrupt malefactors responsible for the despoliation of his beloved city.
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In the face of such extensive despoliation, grassroots opposition has emerged.
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However, the present tax system does not encourage conservation but rather encourages spoliation of our environment through greed and profit based on an income tax system.
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McGinnis’ lawyer said that was tantamount to spoliation — or destruction of evidence.
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They were filled with protesters — including outraged members of a teachers’ union and relatives of kidnapping victims — as well as fans skeptical of a team that, four years earlier, posted its worst World Cup performance since 1978.
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Razia showed up at the scene not to aid in a kidnapping, but to confront her online tormentor, Sacks maintained.
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The actual abduction was committed, according to the feds, by supermarket owner Abu Chowdhury — who’s accused of heading a kidnapping ring that also snatched and tortured two men who crossed his vengeful wife, Iffat Lubna.
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In the past, it's been falsely linked with everything from hurricanes to floods, wildfires and alien abductions.
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“Rapine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapine. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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