Thesaurus results for MARAUDED

marauded

verb

past tense of maraud

as in plundered

to search through with the intent of committing robbery just for kicks, bored teenagers marauded neighborhood houses while their owners were away

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Recent Examples of marauded Released onto a new continent, the cane toads marauded unstoppably. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026

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There is depth and detail that can be navigated and known, probed and plundered for rewards — and the best way to do all of that is with a manual telescope.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2026
As long as the contents of a container have not been plundered outright, they can even be delivered to the recipient after an accident, albeit with some delay.

— Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

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But his house had been looted, his belongings, including two decades’ worth of journals, redistributed or destroyed.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
The drum topped a list of 148 objects that Côte d’Ivoire requested from France in 2019; the petition followed French President Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 pledge to return works of art looted in Africa during the colonial era.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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But Nolan also throws a meditative new wrinkle into the story, as Odysseus comes to grips with his role in the Trojan War, leading the charge as his men raped, murdered and pillaged in his name.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 July 2026
For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 June 2026

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That summer, Detroit was paralyzed by a violent uprising, which erupted after the city’s predominantly white police force raided a night club in a Black neighborhood.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Court records show that only one of the suits, on behalf of a woman and three children whose apartment was allegedly raided three separate times, remains open.

— Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

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