pillager

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pillager
Noun
  • To determine the importance of genes in body size and caste organization, the researchers examined clonal raider ants.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2025
  • The 90-minute film follows three different warriors throughout history: A Viking raider and her son on a quest for revenge; two Japanese brothers—a ninja and a Samurai—who turn on one another in a war of succession; and a WWII pilot who investigates an extraterrestrial threat.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Later, since the apartment remained unlocked, probably some marauders apparently stole all their kitchen appliances, electronics and other valuable family belongings.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 July 2025
  • The movies, by contrast, were still being made in Hollywood by marauders and lunatics.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Learn all about the many groups, from Native Americans to Spanish pirates to English settlers to wealthy cotton planters to enslaved people, who have lived on the island and influenced its development at the Edisto Island Museum.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • John Cleese shows up as a pirate and tries to make a call from a payphone on the ship, while his parrot, who is in love with him, gripes that Cleese is neglecting her and should take her to dinner with all his doubloons.
    Sophie Brickman, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Pillager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pillager. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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