Thesaurus results for PLUNDERING

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as in looting

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verb

present participle of plunder

as in pillaging

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 plundering

Noun

Some have traveled farther as part of colonial-era collections — as far as the British Museum — and been returned; a story unto itself about the plundering of the natural world in the age of empire, and institutions reckoning with their inheritance. —

Tom Page, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026 Living through the aftermath of Rome’s plundering in 410 by the Visigoths, Augustine keenly appreciated the fact that empires come and go. —

Brett Whalen, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026 An intimate doc-feature take on renowned Panamanian anthropologist Reina Torres de Araúz (1932-82), who battled the plundering of artifacts from pre-1492 tombs, told from th POV of a soon who lost her mother too soon. —

John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026 ByteDance’s statement follows the Chinese tech giant receiving cease and desist letters from Disney and Paramount, calling for an immediate halt to IP plundering. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026 It was revealed during that trial that Low's plundering of the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund exceeded $4 billion. —

Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Nov. 2025 Aron Solomon on how the Meta AI copyright decision made libraries sitting ducks for AI plundering. —

Literary Hub, 27 June 2025

Verb

But the sea lies in a region of the Golden State where there are already numerous environmental concerns, and some residents worry that plundering for lithium could exacerbate the problem. —

Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026 So, the Board of Supervisors, through the County Executive Officer, has pirated the Treasurer’s office and is now plundering it. —

John Moorlach, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026 If there really was a class of unaccountable, libertine global élites plundering the world, then wasn’t Trump obviously a member? —

Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026 Most Americans don’t want our nation to be an imperial aggressor threatening, conquering and plundering weaker nations. —

Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2026 An increasing number of bears had previously been observed spending more time on land during the summer, plundering birds’ nests in west Svalbard, and data had shown more adult females in east Svalbard spending more time in areas with bird colonies. —

Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026 Bainbridge wasn’t shy about plundering her personal life for material. —

Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026 Trump is not keeping that a secret but is being quite open about plundering it all. —

Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2026 The most forward-looking strategy is to protect Greenland’s ice sheet rather than plundering a remote Arctic island while ramping up fossil fuel production and accelerating climate change around the world. —

Paul Bierman, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for plundering

Noun

On the streets of Saigon, there was widespread looting.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Greece, home to an extensive repository of cultural artifacts, has long contended with the proliferation of counterfeits and the looting of archaeological sites.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026