marauders

Definition of maraudersnext
plural of marauder

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Noun
  • Vestar was born in 1988 during private equity’s first boom, the same year a brash NYC firm known as Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts took down mighty RJR Nabisco for $25 billion ($70 billion in today’s terms), back when deals were called LBOs and dealmakers were known as corporate raiders.
    Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Nor did their eyes shed tears over the burning library that raiders furnished with the ashes of seven thousand books, which the novelist Mamdouh Azzam had collected over fifty years inside his house in Suwayda.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Deputies believe the vehicle and a woman who was with him were walking out after eating when they were confronted by three masked robbers.
    Richard Ramos, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Joe Pesci, who with Daniel Stern played the would-be robbers of Home Alone and Home Alone 2, also mourned O’Hara’s passing.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • From the days of colonists and pirates to the more modern era (of, say, bankers and lawyers servicing offshore corporations), its touristic charms have gone largely unappreciated.
    John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • On the island’s western end, Fort Frederik is a spectacular example of an 18th-century Danish masonry fort, originally constructed to protect the natural deep-water port from pirates and rival nations.
    Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Marauders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauders. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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