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 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marauder
Noun
  • What a waste of effort for the rest of the raiders who weren’t a QB today.
    Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • One of the militias has a powerful saw that can cut through concrete, enabling them to sneak behind Judicial’s raiders.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • He was dressed in a pirate’s costume at the time in July 2015, Monroe County deputies said.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But when he’s presumed dead after a tragic run-in with a pirate ship, our heroine is forced to take up with the spiteful Prince Humperdink—that is, until a masked man in black jumps in to save her.
    Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Marauder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauder. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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