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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Tens of thousands drowned, while others were raped, robbed, and murdered by pirates, finding vulnerable prey.—
Elizabeth Holtzman,
Time,
9 June 2026
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No child, or reader of Robert Louis Stevenson, can deny the allure of pirates, but the marauders are rarely the good guys in the story.—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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“Buccaneers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buccaneers. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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