as in pirates
someone who engages in robbery of ships at sea
buccaneers preyed upon treasure-laden ships in the Caribbean for nearly three hundred years
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Recent Examples of buccaneers
The conference curated a world of coming wonders for several hundred C-suite buccaneers who had paid up to fifty thousand dollars apiece to update their mental models and investment portfolios.
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Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buccaneers
pirates
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In the Tatsuya Nagamine movie, Z is the name of an admiral who has sworn to destroy all the pirates of the New World, because of the pirates’ dream to have no leader, motivated only by their alliances that uphold the interests of every person and community.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
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For Larissa Knapp, a 27-year FBI veteran who was hired by an entertainment trade group last year to bolster ACE’s work hunting pirates, the timing could hardly have been better.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Buccaneers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buccaneers. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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