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Recent Examples of buccaneer
Renoir’s film dramatized the end of an era (of high-society frivolities, as war loomed), and so does Anderson’s; namely, the end of the age of buccaneer industrialism.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
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
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
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buccaneer
pirate
Noun
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Learn all about the many groups, from Native Americans to Spanish pirates to English settlers to wealthy cotton planters to enslaved people, who have lived on the island and influenced its development at the Edisto Island Museum.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
6 Aug. 2025
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John Cleese shows up as a pirate and tries to make a call from a payphone on the ship, while his parrot, who is in love with him, gripes that Cleese is neglecting her and should take her to dinner with all his doubloons.—
Sophie Brickman,
The Atlantic,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Buccaneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buccaneer. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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