pillager

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pillager
Noun
  • Remote raids will continue for both features permanently following their introduction, and in-person Max Battle raiders will now earn more Premier Balls and XP than before.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • Gus Jaubert, a Frenchman who cooked for Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate raiders, supposedly fed hundreds at these events and became known as the father of Kentucky burgoo (his kettle pots are still on display at Buffalo Trace Distillery).
    Brian Bennett, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Food was short, and if the marauders weren’t stopped, the entire population would starve.
    EW.com, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • There’s no evidence the great marauder himself descends from the Xiongnu elite, though, Brosseder says.
    ByAndrew Curry, science.org, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • However, for years, they were believed to be pirate ships, the museum said in a news release.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • The show will happen in a 60,000 square foot arena with Crimson and Sapphire pirates battling on deck, in the water, and in the sky above full-sized pirate ships.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 2 May 2025
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“Pillager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pillager. Accessed 18 May. 2025.

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