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Recent Examples of privateer
But near the end of Washington’s presidency, French privateers began seizing neutral American ships carrying goods across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Of these, Audi Motorsport reserved 20 for its program, sold 20 to privateer teams, and the remainder were offered on the market at about $80,000 each.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2024
Hundreds of years later, they were found, proving that the ship and the cargo were indeed legitimate prey for privateers, at least according to the law at the time.
—The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The Africans sold into bondage in Virginia in 1619 (the event that prompted the New York Times’ 1619 Project, four centuries later) had been seized from a Portuguese slave ship by an English privateer carrying a Dutch letter of marque.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
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Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Of these, Audi Motorsport reserved 20 for its program, sold 20 to privateer teams, and the remainder were offered on the market at about $80,000 each.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2024
Hundreds of years later, they were found, proving that the ship and the cargo were indeed legitimate prey for privateers, at least according to the law at the time.
—The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The Africans sold into bondage in Virginia in 1619 (the event that prompted the New York Times’ 1619 Project, four centuries later) had been seized from a Portuguese slave ship by an English privateer carrying a Dutch letter of marque.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for privateer
Noun
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Upon arriving at the house, the raiders were told by Mrs. Knoll that the only mash on the premises was that cooking on a small stove in the basement.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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What a week to revive a musical comedy about corporate raiders sabotaging the public good.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The sheltering animals become a makeshift community of helpmates, but marauders onshore, and in the air, abound.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Nov. 2024
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In the story, that turmoil included tsarist marauders that disturbed, or pogrommed, Jews.—
Dave Gordon,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2024
Noun
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Who didn't want to be like those kids going on adventures involving gangsters, pirate ships and best friends?—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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This 31-gallon storage box is a tidy option at a great price right now, and this resin delivery box is an attractive pick for anyone who worries about porch pirates.—
Clint Davis,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 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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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
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“Privateer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateer. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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