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Recent Examples of Synonyms for despoiler
Noun
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Both qualities suggest he’ll be easily manipulated by the senior senator from his home state, who ultimately becomes Smith’s saboteur and nemesis when the scales fall from the younger man’s eyes.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025 -
Our own inner saboteurs, as RuPaul would say, are really the villain of the story.—
Samantha Highfill,
EW.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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There’s no evidence the great marauder himself descends from the Xiongnu elite, though, Brosseder says.—
ByAndrew Curry,
science.org,
24 Feb. 2025
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There’s no evidence the great marauder himself descends from the Xiongnu elite, though, Brosseder says.—
ByAndrew Curry,
science.org,
24 Feb. 2025
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For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
13 Jan. 2025
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Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
24 Oct. 2024
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Corporate raiders and activist investors often push long-standing companies into decisions that serve current shareholders and not the company's long-term vision.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect San Francisco from Confederate raiders.—
Louise McLoughlin,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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Robert has the ability to be a game wrecker in the outfield, on the bases, and in the batter's box.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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In our case, this was a potential vacation wrecker.—
Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
1 Apr. 2025
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Schuster said while changes would be needed to US law to enable the South Korean shipyard to begin fully constructing destroyers for the US Navy, the pact signed Monday could yield immediate benefits.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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The carrier strike group led by the Carl Vinson consists of at least two other warships, the cruiser USS Princeton and the destroyer USS Sterett, and a carrier air wing with nine aircraft squadrons, according to a statement released by the U.S. Navy on March 28.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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The scene in Richard Donner's 1985 adventure comedy The Goonies in which the ragtag group of child explorers finally uncover the mythic pirate ship is one of the film's most unforgettable.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Chan plays Sergeant Dragon Ma, a police officer battling both pirates and gangsters in Hong Kong, and corruption within his law enforcement ranks.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Despoiler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despoiler. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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