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
  • 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
  • At the Jeu de Paume museum, Valland took many risks to safeguard its treasures and record the massive plunder of artwork across France.
    Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The spoliation inference becomes a presumption of guilt that's incredibly challenging to overcome.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Last Friday, Damien Marshall and other King & Spalding attorneys on behalf of MSG filed a memorandum of law in opposition to Oakley’s motion for what are known as spoliation sanctions, meaning a punishment for failure to preserve relevant evidence.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • So any trait that allows a relatively slow, soft-bodied animal to avoid predation has to be taken seriously.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • Read More: The extraordinarily large eyes of colossal and giant squid, for instance, mean that these enormous creatures can spot a sperm whale from hundreds of meters away, according to research, enabling the squid to avoid predation.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2025
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“Ransacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ransacking. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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