marauder

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Recent Examples of marauder There are seven factions to choose from including undead space raiders, killer clowns and cybernetic marauders. Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 Armed marauders have killed scores of civilians and security forces in recent months and kidnapped hundreds of Nigerians from villages, schools, and motorways across the country. Fola Aina, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2021 Instead of grasping the seriousness of conquest and resistance as experienced in human history, Snyder makes everything — such as farmers without machines or munitions fighting marauders with space weapons — into a humorless Heavy Metal cartoon. Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024 To make matters worse, this was also the heyday of the Border Reivers, whole clans of cattle-stealing marauders who plundered and pillaged on both sides of the frontier. Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for marauder 
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Noun
  • While raiders still rampaged, the Tonkawa more than doubled the number of the city's defenders.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
  • More than 800 years ago, raiders threw a dead body into a well outside a Norwegian castle.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Since the early 1980s, both pirate copying of 35 mm film prints and of U.S. satellite transmissions likely functioned as sources for Omnivideo Corp., a line of analog videos that carried titles distributed by U.S. companies.
    Laura-Zoë Humphreys and Daymar Valdés Frigola / Made by History, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But Armstrong gets to play the savvier, less naive Fern as a bit more of a badass, though all four kids are in over their heads when the ship’s malfunctioning droid (Nick Frost) navigates them straight into a pirate den.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Sporting a goatee, tricorn hat, purple vest and pantaloons, the bad-news buccaneer ambushed the victim near the station’s turnstiles, punching him repeatedly before making off with his AirPods and sneakers.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • However, the swarthy crew has an abundance of muscles and ego, not one of the buccaneers knows how to read.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024

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“Marauder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauder. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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