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Recent Examples of privateer
The ghost ship of Harpswell had been the privateer Dash, which had been lost at sea after compiling its remarkable record.
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Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
The muse, known as Lucybelle II, was a rare privateer entry that demonstrated the determination of non-factory teams.
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Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
18 Sep. 2025
Those 64 ships had 1,242 guns, compared to 14,872 privateer guns.
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Rick Bennett,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
But it was captured by a British privateer and departed for Jamaica, crammed with 442 enslaved people.
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Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
The muse, known as Lucybelle II, was a rare privateer entry that demonstrated the determination of non-factory teams.
—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
18 Sep. 2025
Those 64 ships had 1,242 guns, compared to 14,872 privateer guns.
—
Rick Bennett,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
But it was captured by a British privateer and departed for Jamaica, crammed with 442 enslaved people.
—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for privateer
Noun
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Corporate raiders became the enforcers.
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For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.
Noun
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The robbers got off the bus, and were taken into police custody soon afterward, police said.
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In this new collection, Georgia poet laureate Chelsea Rathburn explores a hardscrabble childhood in Florida and her family of colorful characters including a sometimes-homeless bag lady and a notorious bank robber.
Noun
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This Robin is a grizzled marauder who can’t even remember how many people he’s killed.
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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.
Noun
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There's even some sympathy for the vengeful pirate character.
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Tyland may have gotten Triarchy pirate Admiral Sharako Lohar on Team Green’s side, but at his core this man is a coward.
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The looter’s story only came to light thanks to Bradley Gordon, an American lawyer based in Cambodia who has spent much of the last 14 years investigating the plunder of Khmer cultural heritage.
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Borderlands 4 is an amusing looter-shooter that supports solo play or up to four-player co-op.
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Though nobody's quite sure how the buccaneer came to be or what his name is.
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In 1688 the English buccaneer William Dampier explored New Holland’s northwestern coast.
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“Privateer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateer. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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