as in raider
one that starts armed conflict against another especially without reasonable cause
vigilant defenders at the border were quick to repel the invaders
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Recent Examples of invader
The strongest warriors slept in the rooms closest to the doors to protect the community from invaders.
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Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Yet we are also invited to see the Trojans, not the native Italians, as the eastern, luxury-loving imperialist invaders who oppress a noble rustic people.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
All available polling shows that Ukrainian society will not accept the country’s territory’s being traded; and from the military perspective, surrendering western Donbas would amount to giving the invader the key to all of northern and central Ukraine.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
If the immune system is like the body’s bloodhound, tracking down invaders, then many newer vaccine technologies that target specific antigens present the bloodhound with just the pieces of the invader’s clothes that are most helpful to it.
—Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
Ukraine is fighting valiantly against its invaders and is deserving of our steadfast support along with our NATO allies.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
With such a long list of items, anything’s fair game to these little invaders.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2025
The field will include two invaders — Take A Breath, an English-bred making her first American start for trainer Mark Glatt; and Lush Lips, winner of the $200,000 Tepin Stakes at Churchill Downs.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Even more concerning is that this invader — Liturgusa maya, or the Mayan lichen mantis — is very difficult to catch, according to experts.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Yet we are also invited to see the Trojans, not the native Italians, as the eastern, luxury-loving imperialist invaders who oppress a noble rustic people.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
All available polling shows that Ukrainian society will not accept the country’s territory’s being traded; and from the military perspective, surrendering western Donbas would amount to giving the invader the key to all of northern and central Ukraine.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
If the immune system is like the body’s bloodhound, tracking down invaders, then many newer vaccine technologies that target specific antigens present the bloodhound with just the pieces of the invader’s clothes that are most helpful to it.
—Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
Ukraine is fighting valiantly against its invaders and is deserving of our steadfast support along with our NATO allies.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
With such a long list of items, anything’s fair game to these little invaders.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2025
The field will include two invaders — Take A Breath, an English-bred making her first American start for trainer Mark Glatt; and Lush Lips, winner of the $200,000 Tepin Stakes at Churchill Downs.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Even more concerning is that this invader — Liturgusa maya, or the Mayan lichen mantis — is very difficult to catch, according to experts.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invader
Noun
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Outside what is today a parking garage, a group of Union soldiers — unarmed and asleep in tents — were trampled by horses and murdered by Quantrill’s raiders.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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The raiders kill many vault residents and kidnap her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), so the sheltered Lucy sets out on a quest to find him.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The attackers opened fire at people waiting at a bus depot, police said, before boarding a bus to continue the attack.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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But the attacker re-aggravated his hamstring at the club’s training hub in Rush Green.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The laws of neutrality don’t distinguish between aggressor and victim, because those distinctions are not always clear-cut.—
Robert Kagan,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Less than half of those surveyed by Kyodo News in 2015 considered Japan an aggressor in World War II, down from 56% in 1994.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Invader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invader. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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