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Recent Examples of privateer
That victory marked the only time a Prancing Horse entered by a privateer, in this case Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team, took top honors at Circuit de la Sarthe’s iconic race.
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Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2025
Often, her passengers walk through a world where privateers and pirates are closer to their cabins than to Neverland.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
In 1619, the English privateer ship the White Lion docked at Point Comfort in what is now Hampton.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
But near the end of Washington’s presidency, French privateers began seizing neutral American ships carrying goods across the Atlantic Ocean.
—Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2025
Often, her passengers walk through a world where privateers and pirates are closer to their cabins than to Neverland.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
In 1619, the English privateer ship the White Lion docked at Point Comfort in what is now Hampton.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
But near the end of Washington’s presidency, French privateers began seizing neutral American ships carrying goods across the Atlantic Ocean.
—Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for privateer
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UConn’s Jim Mora was a women’s basketball fan, and candy raider at UCLA UConn football coach Jim Mora is a former colleague, and still an fan of UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close, the Huskies’ Final Four foe.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
3 Apr. 2025
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Later, Joel lies to Ellie, who was unconscious during his rescue mission, by saying raiders attacked the hospital.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
29 Mar. 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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Like the out-of-state marauders who terrorized Oklahoma towns in the early 1900s, Morris did not reside in Oklahoma, so Drummond said his office determined that the statute of limitations did not apply.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC News,
13 Mar. 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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Which is not to say that Skeleton Crew, in success, couldn’t ever feature the interstellar buccaneer.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
15 Jan. 2025
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Her approach is a clean break from the 19th-century tradition of American landscape art, in which de facto propagandists like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole depicted land as radiant and virginal, the birthright of any colonial buccaneer drunk on Manifest Destiny.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Privateer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateer. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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