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Recent Examples of buccaneer
Over on the fall/winter 2025 runways, Ralph Lauren and Zimmermann took a more subtle approach via elegant knee-high leather boots with buccaneer buckle detailing and a slight scrunch.
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Emma Spedding, Vogue, 24 July 2025
Guests may spot Rummy greeting buccaneers from his perch along the bar.
—Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 14 July 2025
The buyout buccaneers of the 1980s were their own clients, bootstrapping their corporate takeovers until their sky-high returns lured in outside money.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 June 2025
But that’s not all… Reality Distortion According to Vasko, cyber criminals behind this type of villainy may be thought of as AI buccaneers—digital pirates often paid to instigate corporate espionage and theft.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
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Emma Spedding, Vogue, 24 July 2025
Guests may spot Rummy greeting buccaneers from his perch along the bar.
—Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 14 July 2025
The buyout buccaneers of the 1980s were their own clients, bootstrapping their corporate takeovers until their sky-high returns lured in outside money.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 June 2025
But that’s not all… Reality Distortion According to Vasko, cyber criminals behind this type of villainy may be thought of as AI buccaneers—digital pirates often paid to instigate corporate espionage and theft.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buccaneer
pirate
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From the days of colonists and pirates to the more modern era (of, say, bankers and lawyers servicing offshore corporations), its touristic charms have gone largely unappreciated.—
John Bowe,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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On the island’s western end, Fort Frederik is a spectacular example of an 18th-century Danish masonry fort, originally constructed to protect the natural deep-water port from pirates and rival nations.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Buccaneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buccaneer. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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