as in invader
one that starts armed conflict against another especially without reasonable cause
villagers lived in constant fear of the raiders, who captured their women and children and sold them into slavery
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Recent Examples of raider
Set two-hundred years after atomic armageddon, residents of Vault-Tec’s network of luxury fallout habitats begin to explore the radioactive territory outside their shelters and discover a nightmarish world of militant factions, irradiated creatures, vicious raiders, and feral monsters.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
No disrespect to Purnell, who perfectly calibrated Lucy’s intrinsic hopefulness in the first season and slowly begins to curdle it this go-round as Lucy spends more time among ghouls, raiders, cannibals, and various other feuding factions.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
Who were these Iron Age sea raiders?
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025
Their playbook consists of six practices: conducting full-potential... Private equity (PE) firms have often been portrayed as corporate raiders—investors who snap up companies, pump up their numbers through cost cutting and financial engineering, sell them at huge profits, and move on.
—Harvard Business Review, 20 Nov. 2025
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
No disrespect to Purnell, who perfectly calibrated Lucy’s intrinsic hopefulness in the first season and slowly begins to curdle it this go-round as Lucy spends more time among ghouls, raiders, cannibals, and various other feuding factions.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
Who were these Iron Age sea raiders?
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025
Their playbook consists of six practices: conducting full-potential... Private equity (PE) firms have often been portrayed as corporate raiders—investors who snap up companies, pump up their numbers through cost cutting and financial engineering, sell them at huge profits, and move on.
—Harvard Business Review, 20 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raider
invader
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The Department of Homeland Security posted an image to social media last summer that featured the ICE-hotline number and the message report all foreign invaders.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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An antibody is essentially a microscopic security tag produced by the immune system that can stick to invaders.—
Kwesi Akonu Adom Mensah Forson,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Raider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raider. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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