ransacking 1 of 2

present participle of ransack

ransacking

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noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ransacking
Verb
  • Deputies started searching the area and soon spotted a set of footprints in the snow that led away from the road.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Federal investigators later found bomb-making materials while searching Jabbar's Texas home.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Vikings, for example, used the extra daylight to sneak in a longer pillage sesh.
    Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 19 June 2025
  • Otherwise, illicit actors will continue to profit from their pillage.
    Justyna Gudzowska, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Reparations, long proposed as the only measure proportionate to the scale of racial plunder, look increasingly like a political, economic, and legal non-starter.
    Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
  • California was also a land of plunder, a place where rampant capitalism had merged with unrealistic fantasy.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • During deliberations, the jury focused almost entirely on the spoliation issue.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • The spoliation inference becomes a presumption of guilt that's incredibly challenging to overcome.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • Like the elf owl, the Socorro dove suffered heavily from cat predation and habitat loss.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • The birds face other challenges, including habitat loss and predation by invasive creatures like rats.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2025
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“Ransacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ransacking. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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