Thesaurus results for MARAUDING

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noun

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as in plundering

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verb

present participle of maraud

as in pillaging

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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Noun

Article continues below Unfortunately, a passing asteroid deposits a killer alien robot in their midst, and the soldiers must fend for themselves as this marauding mech stalks them with guns and lasers blazing. —

Jeff Spry, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2026 Rutter, the club’s record £40m buy from Leeds United, was an instant hit last season with insatiable work rate and marauding runs until an ankle injury ruled him out from March for the rest of the campaign. —

Andy Naylor, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026

Verb

Quick attacks down the flanks Parkinson’s preference for a three-man defence means his team often look wide to find marauding wing-backs high up the pitch. —

Thom Harris, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026 Ozzy Lusth is marauding through the jungle, Sandra Diaz-Twine is lunging out of a shelter, and Johnny Fairplay’s real grandmother fake dies. —

Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 But their deployment, marauding the streets of American communities, operating with military posture and lethal force, supersedes that mission and strikes at the heart of constitutional governance. —

Larry Pino, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2026 In this instance, the protests were combined with citizen surveillance of marauding federal agents, primarily through the use of smartphone recordings. —

Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026 There is no conspiracy to chase Colorado ranchers off of public lands with marauding bands of gray wolves. —

The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026 While guarding this mysterious gorge, these good-looking sharpshooters inevitably fall in love and join forces to contain the marauding creatures. —

Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2025 Fearing the attacker’s return and marauding gangs, the family abandoned their home in a rural stretch of farmland and fruit trees and hid in the bushes. —

Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025 They were ambushed, and Pauline was killed by stray gunfire from marauding mobsters hell-bent on killing Buford. —

Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 9 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Some have traveled farther as part of colonial-era collections — as far as the British Museum — and been returned; a story unto itself about the plundering of the natural world in the age of empire, and institutions reckoning with their inheritance.

— Tom Page, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
Living through the aftermath of Rome’s plundering in 410 by the Visigoths, Augustine keenly appreciated the fact that empires come and go.

— Brett Whalen, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026