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Recent Examples of Synonyms for privateers
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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 -
Out of all 32 teams in the League, the Las Vegas raiders get the first pick of the draft, with the New York Jets to follow.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
23 Apr. 2026
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In 2021, their house was invaded by armed robbers while Dorit was home alone with their kids.—
Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
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The robbers made off with an unspecified amount of money from the register, and fled north on the nearby residential Campbell Avenue, police said.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
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Tens of thousands drowned, while others were raped, robbed, and murdered by pirates, finding vulnerable prey.—
Elizabeth Holtzman,
Time,
9 June 2026
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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.—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
Noun
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The conference curated a world of coming wonders for several hundred C-suite buccaneers who had paid up to fifty thousand dollars apiece to update their mental models and investment portfolios.—
Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Privateers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateers. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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