marauder

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Recent Examples of marauder The sheltering animals become a makeshift community of helpmates, but marauders onshore, and in the air, abound. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024 Finding clean water is challenging, marauders roam the land, and some of the humans who remain have resorted to unthinkable behaviour, like cannibalism. Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024 While that occasion caused much mirth, neighbors in Washington were not pleased with the mass of masked marauders. Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024 There are seven factions to choose from including undead space raiders, killer clowns and cybernetic marauders. Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for marauder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marauder
Noun
  • The second trailer for the anthology story centers on a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
  • This anthology film tells of three fierce human warriors – a vengeful Viking raider, a ninja in feudal Japan and an Allied pilot in World War II – who face off against a deadly alien hunter with otherworldly weaponry and a mean streak.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Overcoming the first son, the group continues their journey only to face down one after another, each with his own gimmick: The pirate son with his sea-creature half-men minions, for instance; a band of hunters with their own, even deadlier werewolf.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • Smuggler’s Copter is obviously a very famous card in Magic history, but also just the flavor of Smuggler’s Copter being, in the original set, for a pair of sky pirates.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • 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

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“Marauder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauder. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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