despoiler

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Noun
  • Before the computer age, saboteurs had trouble calibrating and controlling the effects of their actions.
    Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
  • The deployment of roughly 10 NATO vessels under the Baltic Sentry mission is intended to deter acts of sabotage and enhance the likelihood of quickly intercepting any saboteurs, YLE reported.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 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
  • For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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
  • While waiting for a wrecker to arrive, the squad car was struck from behind by a black Mercedes sedan, according to the statement.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
  • After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town CT brewery closes a popular shoreline pub and restaurant location.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Last Thursday, the Australian military announced that three Chinese naval ships, including the Type 055 destroyer CNS Zunyi, the Type 054A frigate CNS Hengyang, and the Type 903 replenishment vessel CNS Weishanhu, were in the Coral Sea northeast of Australia.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Accidents involving the huge ships and commercial vessels are rare as the carriers usually travel with a strike group, protected by a screen of destroyers.
    Natasha Bertrand, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the pirates were already waiting there in speedboats.
    Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • 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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“Despoiler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despoiler. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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