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In 1619, the English privateer ship the White Lion docked at Point Comfort in what is now Hampton.
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Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
But near the end of Washington’s presidency, French privateers began seizing neutral American ships carrying goods across the Atlantic Ocean.
—Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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.
—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
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Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
But near the end of Washington’s presidency, French privateers began seizing neutral American ships carrying goods across the Atlantic Ocean.
—Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for privateer
Noun
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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
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What a week to revive a musical comedy about corporate raiders sabotaging the public good.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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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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Some of the pirates were already waiting there in speedboats.—
Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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Ozzy Osbourne could've been a pirate — and wife Sharon still regrets not letting him.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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Which is not to say that Skeleton Crew, in success, couldn’t ever feature the interstellar buccaneer.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
15 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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“Privateer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateer. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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