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Inspectors roam elaborate tunnels used by tomb raiders and smugglers over different eras.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
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Eastern Libya has become a key launch point for smugglers, undercutting years of EU efforts to curb departures and making Crete a new pressure point.—
LEFTERIS PITARAKIS,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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Dark childhood traumas come fiercely back to take their toll and Paula is surrounded by soulless hunters, magical wild spirits and a pack of wolves older than mankind.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2026
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Investors have become conditioned to a trend in which morning selloffs attract bargain-hunters who swoop in and spark afternoon rallies.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
10 Mar. 2026
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Tourists seeking to visit the Statue of Liberty were defrauded daily by unscrupulous ticket-hawkers pitching water tours departing miles away that charge high prices and can’t land on Liberty Island.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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It’s built to resemble utopia but registers as an artificial paradise, the sort designed to sell forever the way hawkers on a convention floor sell timeshares.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
26 Nov. 2025
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The third, Thomas Jefferson, fought the Barbary pirates without a formal declaration.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2026
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The park also pointed out a Junior Ranger booklet's mention of female pirates in the 17th and 18th centuries dressing like men to hide among ship crews.—
Karin Brulliard,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026
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Police arrested one of four snowball bandits caught on camera clobbering the cops with snow.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Traditional western dramas were more likely to depict vaqueros as bandits than hard-working ranch hands whose contributions were fundamental to the American West.—
Foreign Correspondent,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Poachers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poachers. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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