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Recent Examples of pillage
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
As fans should know, the state’s pillage people have other means of extraction.
—K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Michael Knights, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2025
In December, gangs pillaged and set fire to the Bernard Mevs Hospital, one of the few critical-care facilities in the country.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Byron is surveying rout and pillage, and the terrible ease with which the laws of civil society, such as respect for the elderly, are flung aside.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
As fans should know, the state’s pillage people have other means of extraction.
—K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Verb
For centuries, the East India Company, a commercial and military organization, pillaged the riches of India to fund the British Empire and the company’s own expansion.
—Michael Knights, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2025
In December, gangs pillaged and set fire to the Bernard Mevs Hospital, one of the few critical-care facilities in the country.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pillage
Noun
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California was also a land of plunder, a place where rampant capitalism had merged with unrealistic fantasy.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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At the Jeu de Paume museum, Valland took many risks to safeguard its treasures and record the massive plunder of artwork across France.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
18 June 2025
Verb
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The crowds are usually made up of people desperate for food who grab supplies off the passing trucks, and armed gangs have also looted trucks.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Chicago Tribune,
4 July 2025
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The Journal Sentinel is not specifying the location at the request of tribal officials, due to the risk of looting.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
3 July 2025
Verb
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On a stroll through New York City yesterday, Hathaway’s outfit offered a fun solution for not sacking off your denim in the high summer heat just yet.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
10 July 2025
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At least one department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, has massively scaled back a plan to sack more than 76,000 employees.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
10 July 2025
Verb
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Decades of despoiling water bodies have taken a terrible toll, filling water bodies with fetid algae that blocks sunlight and smothers the native seagrass beds that are a main food source for manatees.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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Gaddis was an obscure state employee who was fired from his job last summer after leaking details of a secret plot by the DeSantis administration to despoil nine pristine Florida state parks with golf courses, pickleball courts and resort-style lodges — all to benefit his wealthy friends.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
17 June 2025
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“Pillage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pillage. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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