plunderers

plural of plunderer

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Noun
  • Viggo Mortensen plays Tom, a family man who swiftly kills a pair of would-be robbers at his diner and becomes a media sensation.
    Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
  • Boston Police are looking for two robbers armed with a gun who held up a children's lemonade stand in South Boston.
    Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • The alpha heroes of 1980s romances—ranch owners, corporate raiders, anyone played by Michael Douglas—tended to be emotionally constipated anti-feminists intent on dominating the opposite sex by using testosterone and wads of cash.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Pumpkin’s lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep led by Thalia (Sossamon).
    Brent Lang, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Tens of thousands drowned, while others were raped, robbed, and murdered by pirates, finding vulnerable prey.
    Elizabeth Holtzman, Time, 9 June 2026
  • No child, or reader of Robert Louis Stevenson, can deny the allure of pirates, but the marauders are rarely the good guys in the story.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
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“Plunderers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plunderers. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.

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