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Recent Examples of pillage
Dánica Coto,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Sep. 2024
Byron is surveying rout and pillage, and the terrible ease with which the laws of civil society, such as respect for the elderly, are flung aside.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2024
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
OpenAI has been pillaging Apple’s hardware engineering ranks for talent to work on competitors to Apple’s smart home and mobile devices, while Meta is revamping its own AI wearables.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
8 May 2026
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Noun
At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.
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Dánica Coto,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Sep. 2024
Byron is surveying rout and pillage, and the terrible ease with which the laws of civil society, such as respect for the elderly, are flung aside.
—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2024
Verb
Picking up where episode 7 left off, Wayne (Toby Wallace) wakes up to Rue pillaging his safe.
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Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
OpenAI has been pillaging Apple’s hardware engineering ranks for talent to work on competitors to Apple’s smart home and mobile devices, while Meta is revamping its own AI wearables.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pillage
Noun
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The second — a fastball Horwitz hit about 100 mph for a double to right field — was the start of a Pirate plunder at Sutter Health Park.
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The looter’s story only came to light thanks to Bradley Gordon, an American lawyer based in Cambodia who has spent much of the last 14 years investigating the plunder of Khmer cultural heritage.
Verb
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The sandstone artifact, which depicts the Hindu epic character Duryodhana, had in fact been looted from Koh Ker in or around 1972, after the all-important UNESCO convention.
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Rioters again attacked police with rocks, bottles and other objects, and looted and burned local buildings.
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He was sacked in December 2024 after winning just twice in the Premier League to begin the 2024-25 campaign.
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The result was so emphatic that the Tunisian soccer federation acted fast, sacking manager Sabri Lamouchi just hours after.
Verb
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One looks to the story of the Haitian World Cup team, appearing in the tournament for the first time in fifty years, which has gathered expatriate players from the Haitian diaspora to play for that beautiful and utterly despoiled country, where many of them have never lived.
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In the 21st century, oil extraction has become a serious threat to Ecuadoran Amazonia, with large swaths of forest, often located in Indigenous territories, despoiled by the release of wastewater from the wells.
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“Pillage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pillage. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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