marauder

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Recent Examples of marauder 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 Finding clean water is challenging, marauders roam the land, and some of the humans who remain have resorted to unthinkable behaviour, like cannibalism. Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for marauder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marauder
Noun
  • Remote raids will continue for both features permanently following their introduction, and in-person Max Battle raiders will now earn more Premier Balls and XP than before.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • Gus Jaubert, a Frenchman who cooked for Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate raiders, supposedly fed hundreds at these events and became known as the father of Kentucky burgoo (his kettle pots are still on display at Buffalo Trace Distillery).
    Brian Bennett, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • However, for years, they were believed to be pirate ships, the museum said in a news release.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • The show will happen in a 60,000 square foot arena with Crimson and Sapphire pirates battling on deck, in the water, and in the sky above full-sized pirate ships.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • But their populations plummeted in the 18th and 19th centuries, as buccaneers and whalers nabbed tortoises for meat and oil.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Which is not to say that Skeleton Crew, in success, couldn’t ever feature the interstellar buccaneer.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 15 Jan. 2025

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“Marauder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauder. Accessed 14 May. 2025.

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