Thesaurus results for PLUNDERED

plundered

verb

past tense of plunder

as in looted

to search through with the intent of committing robbery the escaped convict plundered the house in search of valuables

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Recent Examples of plundered But Klaasen didn’t hold back and shared an 80-run stand with Nitish Kumar Reddy, who made 21, and then Salil Arora (30 not out) plundered three sixes and two fours as Hyderabad notched its fifth straight win. —

ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026 Five years after the Halifax Resolves were adopted, the British army briefly occupied the town and plundered its homes, according to the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties. —

Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026 Norway will be appearing at their first major tournament since Euro 2000, but having plundered a remarkable 37 goals in their eight qualifying matches (which included an 11-1 shellacking of Moldova in which Haaland scored five goals), Stale Solbakken’s side could be one of the teams to watch. —

Tom Williams, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026 Magyar has called for all of Orbán’s cronies in the government to resign and has committed to holding to account those who plundered Hungary. —

Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026 The collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity and the company’s management, has generated a painful litany of woes. —

Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2026 Before being definitively plundered, the museum was home to the most comprehensive Nubian archaeological collection in the world. —

News Desk, Artforum, 17 Mar. 2026 The area has been plundered for centuries. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026 Monster bamboo, bougainvillea, and banana plants crashed in from the roadside; a tin roof sagged under the weight of a gaggle of marabou storks; baboons plundered trash cans at a highway intersection. —

Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026

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Roughly 100,000 artworks were looted in France during the war, according to a report published by the Working Party on the Spoliation of Jews in France, set up by the French government in 1997.

— Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
Jenkins also admitted stealing cocaine, heroin, and marijuana—along with pharmaceuticals looted during the unrest following the death of Freddie Gray in 2015.

— Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 7 May 2026