spoliator

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Noun
  • The sheltering animals become a makeshift community of helpmates, but marauders onshore, and in the air, abound.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
  • In the story, that turmoil included tsarist marauders that disturbed, or pogrommed, Jews.
    Dave Gordon, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The deployment of roughly 10 NATO vessels under the Baltic Sentry mission is intended to deter acts of sabotage and enhance the likelihood of quickly intercepting any saboteurs, YLE reported.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Allied officials say some of the ailing ships are doubling as low-tech saboteur vessels.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.
    Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Mayfield was good out of structure, particularly in avoiding pressure and shaking off would-be sackers.
    Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The Raiders ran for over 100 yards anyway. Linebackers: F Khalil Mack, the NFL’s leading sacker, had six the last time these two met.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • This article contains spoilers for The Last Showgirl.
    Mike Miller, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2025
  • By Megan McCluskey January 9, 2025 9:00 PM EST Warning: This post contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Traitors Season 3.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
  • California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Spoliator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoliator. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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