plunderer

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Noun
  • Prior to foreign hunters visiting Uruguay and providing a financial incentive to keep the birds’ populations healthy, ducks were often poisoned en masse because they were seen as little more than crop raiders.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Raphael is a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023 Nova Festival massacre in Israel, which was part of a surprise attack in which Hamas raiders murdered more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 men, women and children.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The movies, by contrast, were still being made in Hollywood by marauders and lunatics.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Since the Saya de Malha Bank has been known to entice pirates and other sea marauders, Landi also planned to mount a Gatling gun on the Aisland.
    Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Plunderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plunderer. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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