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Recent Examples of marauder
Finding clean water is challenging, marauders roam the land, and some of the humans who remain have resorted to unthinkable behaviour, like cannibalism.
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Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
While that occasion caused much mirth, neighbors in Washington were not pleased with the mass of masked marauders.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
There are seven factions to choose from including undead space raiders, killer clowns and cybernetic marauders.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Instead of grasping the seriousness of conquest and resistance as experienced in human history, Snyder makes everything — such as farmers without machines or munitions fighting marauders with space weapons — into a humorless Heavy Metal cartoon.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
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Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
While that occasion caused much mirth, neighbors in Washington were not pleased with the mass of masked marauders.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
There are seven factions to choose from including undead space raiders, killer clowns and cybernetic marauders.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Instead of grasping the seriousness of conquest and resistance as experienced in human history, Snyder makes everything — such as farmers without machines or munitions fighting marauders with space weapons — into a humorless Heavy Metal cartoon.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marauder
Noun
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Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect San Francisco from Confederate raiders.—
Louise McLoughlin,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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Corporate raiders and activist investors often push long-standing companies into decisions that serve current shareholders and not the company's long-term vision.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The scene in Richard Donner's 1985 adventure comedy The Goonies in which the ragtag group of child explorers finally uncover the mythic pirate ship is one of the film's most unforgettable.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Chan plays Sergeant Dragon Ma, a police officer battling both pirates and gangsters in Hong Kong, and corruption within his law enforcement ranks.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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But their populations plummeted in the 18th and 19th centuries, as buccaneers and whalers nabbed tortoises for meat and oil.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Apr. 2025
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Which is not to say that Skeleton Crew, in success, couldn’t ever feature the interstellar buccaneer.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Marauder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauder. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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