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Recent Examples of rapine
If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine.
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Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2020
There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2013
Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2020
There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapine
Noun
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Vikings, for example, used the extra daylight to sneak in a longer pillage sesh.—
Corey Buhay,
Outside Online,
19 June 2025
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Otherwise, illicit actors will continue to profit from their pillage.—
Justyna Gudzowska,
Foreign Affairs,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Character progression is primarily handled through a persistent skill tree, crafting, and looting.—
Gabriel Zamora,
PC Magazine,
4 Oct. 2025
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The antifa movement was often blamed by police for the violence and looting that occurred in the aftermath of the murder.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the face of such extensive despoliation, grassroots opposition has emerged.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2025
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The two latest examples of that despoliation are the Regina Bypass, an expensive highway completed in 2019, and the Global Transportation Hub, an expensive logistics center (canada’s premier inland port) built in 2009.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The spoliation inference becomes a presumption of guilt that's incredibly challenging to overcome.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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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
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There’s something about kidnapping that scares the fear out of you, Goldberg-Polin says.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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How a squad had burst into that house, taken away the adults, and left the children behind, all witnesses to the kidnapping.—
Mariana Enriquez
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The story is based on the true case of the abduction in Israel of a seven-year-old Jewish boy, Yossele Schumacher, by his ultra-Orthodox grandfather in the early 1960s, to prevent him from being raised as a secular Jew by his parents.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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The sequence that ends in her abduction and killing is entirely fabricated by the show.—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Rapine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapine. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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