as in to plunder
to search through with the intent of committing robbery
just for kicks, bored teenagers marauded neighborhood houses while their owners were away
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That’s all fine and good for shows that might appeal to a younger, less hard-drinking crowd, but what about the midnight marauding EDM audience, who are used to, and expect, the party to go all night long?
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
In other parts of the country, marauding gunmen known locally as bandits have carried out mass kidnappings mostly for ransom.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
This much is undisputed: hundreds of rally attendees—some armed with metal flagpoles, baseball bats, pepper spray and stun guns—smashed their way into the Capitol building and loitered in the halls, splintering off to rummage through offices or maraud an empty chamber of Congress.
—Hawa Allan, Time, 7 Jan. 2022
As truly violent criminals maraud and run rampant through New York City, this DA exhibits zero interest in law-enforcement and prosecution.
—NBC News, 31 Dec. 2020
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
In other parts of the country, marauding gunmen known locally as bandits have carried out mass kidnappings mostly for ransom.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
This much is undisputed: hundreds of rally attendees—some armed with metal flagpoles, baseball bats, pepper spray and stun guns—smashed their way into the Capitol building and loitered in the halls, splintering off to rummage through offices or maraud an empty chamber of Congress.
—Hawa Allan, Time, 7 Jan. 2022
As truly violent criminals maraud and run rampant through New York City, this DA exhibits zero interest in law-enforcement and prosecution.
—NBC News, 31 Dec. 2020
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A week after Helene smashed into the Southeast, power outages, water shortages and impassable roads stymie recovery Tropical systems, of course, can plunder coastlines.Sharif Paget, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
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And neither Coppola nor Snyder deals with how ideologues have plundered the West.Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
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Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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In the film, Diop, who is French and of Senegalese descent, follows the 2021 repatriation of 26 artifacts from the Musée du quai Branly back to their place of origin, Dahomey, once a kingdom in the modern-day West African nation of Benin, which France had pillaged in the 1890s.Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
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Herbert was sacked six times in the first half, including three by the Browns’ menacing Myles Garrett.Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 4 Nov. 2024
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He was sacked twice to help the Titans kill drives, including taking a 19-yard loss on the Bears’ second series.Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2024
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The world is a stakeholder, not a bystander, and cannot remain silent as Brazil despoils this indispensable carbon sink, irreplaceable oxygen source, and precious repository of plant and animal life.Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
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Meanwhile, human activity has imperiled biodiversity as people despoil lands and waters, introduce invasive species, and harvest natural resources unsustainably.Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
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Key Background Fear of unrest and looting in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere lingers after unrest was recorded following the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, including the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, as well as the protests following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.Conor Murray, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Some say that, in taking the material, the French looted something intangible: the Beninese people’s chance at seeing themselves in a larger historical context and not just through the gaze of white victimizers.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Maraud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maraud. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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