plunderer

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Noun
  • Police said the robber was seen leaving the area in a gray 2020 Cadillac CT6.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Yet key dramatic moments—a shooting, the robbers’ realization that the bank vault is empty—occurred in a hallway invisible to the audience, described secondhand.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Vikings were raiders, pirates, traders, explorers, and colonizers who traveled far beyond their homeland in Scandinavia between the 9th and 11 centuries.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • All that maritime commerce also attracted its fair share of Viking raiders from Scandinavia.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As this list reveals, English has been a welcoming recipient—though at times also a looter—of many words, commodities, and ideas from India that have transformed daily lives and speech in the Anglophone world.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In some cases, the linear sections are convincing enough, but for the most part, Black Ops 7 feels like a mediocre looter shooter in structure and moment-to-moment gameplay.
    Fran J. Ruiz, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Based in Austin, Texas, Saronic makes six autonomous surface vessel iterations, including a six-foot-long vessel known as Spyglass and its 40-metric-ton marauder.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The marauders who perpetrated the post-2003 sectarian violence weren’t.
    Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Plunderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plunderer. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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