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Recent Examples of marauder
As was the case in the Middle Ages, unemployed former mercenaries often turn into marauders, preying on the weak to survive and wreaking havoc on ordinary citizens.
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Allison Stanger, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Finding clean water is challenging, marauders roam the land, and some of the humans who remain have resorted to unthinkable behaviour, like cannibalism.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
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
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Allison Stanger, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Finding clean water is challenging, marauders roam the land, and some of the humans who remain have resorted to unthinkable behaviour, like cannibalism.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marauder
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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
Noun
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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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But their populations plummeted in the 18th and 19th centuries, as buccaneers and whalers nabbed tortoises for meat and oil.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 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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“Marauder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauder. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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