marauding 1 of 2

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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marauding

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noun

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Recent Examples of marauding
Verb
First, the marauding, overlapping wing-backs drag markers away with decoy runs, opening up lanes for the attacking midfielders to exploit. Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • The store released a black-and-white video showing the thieves, which appears to be at least four suspects, plundering the business.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Amid the pillaging of homes, Roman magistrates were likely sent to the city to prevent an anarchic type of existence, based on ancient literary sources the authors referenced in the study.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Protests intensified over the weekend, with rioters targeting the homes of lawmakers, ransacking and looting properties, and burning government buildings, according to media reports.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Apex Legends, for instance, added Wildcard Mode, which drops looting to focus on faster combat.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One of Al Pacino’s finest performances of the 1970s — which, with the Godfather films and Serpico, is an absurd hot hand — is as the enigmatic, wild-eyed Sonny, a man who performs a desperate bank robbery with his partner (the late John Cazale, by turns heartbreakingly clueless and dopily funny).
    Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Told from the point of view of Ruffalo's lawman and the everyman (Tom Pelphry) who is surprisingly leading the robberies, the drama is seriously dark but also thoughtful and addictive.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the 2024-25 NBA season, Josh, who serves as the Denver Nuggets’ CEO and team president, was instrumental in sacking head coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The results also come on the heels of Qantas recently being hit with a record A$90 million penalty for illegally sacking 1,800 ground staff.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The pack consists of up to 15 wolves of various ages roaming federal public land near an active cattle grazing allotment, where many of the depredation incidents took place, according the memo.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Researchers looked at wolf abundance, the number killed in wolf hunting and by government removals, and livestock depredation in those states from 2005 to 2001, and found that the amount of livestock saved by killing a single wolf, roughly equaled 7% of a single cow.
    Nathan Rott, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Simpson goes away to college, in Chicago, though not without her mother raiding her personal loan.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Almost half of America's youngest workers are raiding their retirement accounts just to get by, a new report has found.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • From Central America to West Africa, Greece to Indonesia, Clapp serves up a stirring picture of the deliberate and surprisingly profitable despoliation of one half of the planet by the other.
    Ian Volner, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

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“Marauding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauding. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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