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ransacking

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verb

present participle of ransack

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ransacking
Verb
  • Deputies started searching the area and soon spotted a set of footprints in the snow that led away from the road.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Federal investigators later found bomb-making materials while searching Jabbar's Texas home.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These are curated from the titles that were most frequently picked up in the Criterion Closet, that magical room full of the company’s releases that visiting filmmakers and luminaries are invited to peruse and pillage.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.
    Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Last month, in another headline-grabbing food plunder, 100,000 organic eggs were taken from a distribution trailer in Pennsylvania.
    Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Such tactics included the extraordinary plunder and destruction of the Hundred Years’ War and the fire bombings of cities in World War II.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Last Friday, Damien Marshall and other King & Spalding attorneys on behalf of MSG filed a memorandum of law in opposition to Oakley’s motion for what are known as spoliation sanctions, meaning a punishment for failure to preserve relevant evidence.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 May 2025
  • Chain of Custody Issues: The longer the delay between an incident and preserving mobile evidence, the more opportunities exist for spoliation claims about data modification or tampering.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Jaguars do occasionally kill cows, though few cases of livestock predation in the US have actually been verified.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025
  • The role of predation in shaping sociality among primates is well established, and this incident reinforces the theory that group living offers significant protection against aerial predators.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
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“Ransacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ransacking. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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