despoiler

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Noun
  • However, Entertainment Weekly has learned that DiCaprio is being eyed to portray Chris Shiherlis, the bank robber who was originally played by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • So no wonder that his engagement with the human cost of rapid industrialization in early 20th century Bohemia fed into his depiction in the novel of social conditions in robber-baron America.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But that was back when the world was a simpler place and Mickelson wasn’t the saboteur of professional golf’s social stratum.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the shadowy underworld of soil, tiny plastic particles are lurking like molecular saboteurs.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Show me exactly how to reorganize my day to focus on growth drivers first, which of my tasks are secretly time-wasters dressed as important work, and how to say no to everything else.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Its namesake, cattleman Oliver Loving, was shot by a band of raiders during a cattle drive in 1866, and died of shock a few days later after a doctor didn’t amputate his gangrenous arm.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • All of them have been broken into by raiders over the centuries, their walls smashed or lids prised off despite once being locked shut with metal clasps.
    Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Bosa has already been a game-wrecker through two games thus far.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The Packers have the NFL’s youngest roster for a third straight year, a group of young, gifted players that might need a game-wrecker to get them over the hump.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Everyone cosplays as a wasteland ravager, depraved, ugly, and dirty, talking about cannibalism and the brutality of all sorts.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Australia joined that group last December, with the successful firing of a Tomahawk by the destroyer HMAS Brisbane off the US West Coast.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Penta won the match with an avalanche destroyer, which has led to a storyline neck injury for Waller.
    Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Plus, Jude Law brings his movie star charisma as the swaggering pirate captain Jod Na Nawood, who helps the kids find their way back home (for reasons far from mere goodwill).
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Attendees are encouraged to dress in their best pirate costume.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Despoiler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despoiler. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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