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ravager

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Recent Examples of ravager Everyone cosplays as a wasteland ravager, depraved, ugly, and dirty, talking about cannibalism and the brutality of all sorts. Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravager
Noun
  • Dek is the weakest link in his warrior family, and the arrival of their father cements that fact; there is no sentimentality here as the elder predator orders Kwei to kill his brother and be done with him.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Things kick off with a bit of inter-family strife, involving a young predator named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi).
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Senior Javon Jones is a game-wrecker on the Eaglecrest defensive front.
    Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Mack, in particular, is renowned as a wrecker of plays at the line of scrimmage, although he is best known for his relentless pursuit of quarterbacks.
    Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The victim described the rapist as a man of medium build with brown hair.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In the wake of the white community demanding more punishment, the Kentucky General Assembly amended the death penalty statute to allow juries to sentence a rapist to hang in the county seat where the crime was committed.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By hinting that his business was the victim of shape-shifting saboteurs, Westergaard distracted from the more prosaic story about the carelessness of his staff.
    Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Even if Robert picks a suitable candidate, a saboteur is likely to ignore a direct order and tag along to steal the glory.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The pic follows a bank robber (Eastwood) and his irreverent sidekick (Bridges) who reassemble their old posse for a daring new heist.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The donut shop robber (now known to be villain Lightningstruck) is on the prowl again.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Show me exactly how to reorganize my day to focus on growth drivers first, which of my tasks are secretly time-wasters dressed as important work, and how to say no to everything else.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the outgoing 47th task group, comprising the destroyer CNS Baotou, the frigate CNS Honghe and the supply ship CNS Gaoyouhu, has been on deployment for almost a year, after the three-ship flotilla left Zhoushan, China, on December 15, 2024.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In August, the United States began assembling a large-scale deployment in the southern Caribbean Sea near northern Venezuela, creating a Joint Task Force that initially included three destroyers—equipped for air, anti-submarine and missile defense—and an amphibious group of roughly 4,500 troops.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Ravager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ravager. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.

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