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Recent Examples of buccaneer
But their populations plummeted in the 18th and 19th centuries, as buccaneers and whalers nabbed tortoises for meat and oil.
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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
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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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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buccaneer
pirate
Noun
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Long romanticized by cinema (hello, Jack Sparrow), pirate imagery is sneaking into fashion shows, reinterpreted with with luxurious materials, high shafts, relaxed structure, and lots of buckles.—
María Munsuri,
Glamour,
27 July 2025
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The result was a very distinct split between those who figured out the game and stopped trading with the planet that produced the pirate spaceship, and those who did not.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
24 July 2025
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“Buccaneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buccaneer. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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