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Recent Examples of buccaneer
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.
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Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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
However, the swarthy crew has an abundance of muscles and ego, not one of the buccaneers knows how to read.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
The Adventureland Suite exudes the romance of exploration, while the opulent Pirates of the Caribbean Suite is filled with a trove of treasure maps, chests and buccaneer memorabilia.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
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Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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
However, the swarthy crew has an abundance of muscles and ego, not one of the buccaneers knows how to read.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
The Adventureland Suite exudes the romance of exploration, while the opulent Pirates of the Caribbean Suite is filled with a trove of treasure maps, chests and buccaneer memorabilia.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buccaneer
pirate
Noun
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The Sea Witch By Eva Leigh Canary Street Press: 448 pages, $19 (Aug. 26) Leigh has penned a pirate romantasy with an ultra-hot relationship at its center.—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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However, the sugars in a molasses spray caused an increase of beneficial insects such as adult lacewings, lady beetles, weevil parasitoids, big-eyed bugs, minute pirate bugs, and adult hover flies.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
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“Buccaneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buccaneer. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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