pillager

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Noun
  • British Navy personnel stationed in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea had seen how fast Arab dhows secretly armed with a three-pounder gun and a machine gun successfully defeated pirates and slave raiders.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • What a week to revive a musical comedy about corporate raiders sabotaging the public good.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In the story, that turmoil included tsarist marauders that disturbed, or pogrommed, Jews.
    Dave Gordon, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Underneath the pirate is a shadowing within the bolt of a floral motif pattern inspired by the tiles at the Columbia Restaurant.
    Eduardo A. Encina, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The float that received one of the bigger reactions was a wooden pirate ship built on a RV chassis.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Pillager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pillager. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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