marauder

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Recent Examples of marauder While that occasion caused much mirth, neighbors in Washington were not pleased with the mass of masked marauders. Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for marauder 
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Noun
  • One of the militias has a powerful saw that can cut through concrete, enabling them to sneak behind Judicial’s raiders.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In Charleston, Loyalists were desperate for skilled horsemen who could work as scouts and raiders, plundering Patriot homes for supplies.
    Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Disney's Treasure Planet is a fantastical re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island, focused on space pirates setting out to track down a world filled with treasure.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Better to stick with the Bogie and Bacall babies and the Park Slope pirates.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 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 17 Jan. 2025.

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