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
  • British Navy personnel stationed in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea had seen how fast Arab dhows secretly armed with a three-pounder gun and a machine gun successfully defeated pirates and slave raiders.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The float that received one of the bigger reactions was a wooden pirate ship built on a RV chassis.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Underneath the pirate is a shadowing within the bolt of a floral motif pattern inspired by the tiles at the Columbia Restaurant.
    Eduardo A. Encina, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Which is not to say that Skeleton Crew, in success, couldn’t ever feature the interstellar buccaneer.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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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“Marauder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauder. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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