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McCain said those were U.S. weapons that ISIS stole during its plundering of Mosul.

Hussein, a 45-year-old father of four from Tal Rifat, a town north of Aleppo, complains of rampant plundering by rebel militias.

We have a long tradition of raiding and plundering each other.

By plundering your own life for material, you are not investing in yourself as a writer; you're spending the principal.

Cameron's Conservatives still see the west coast as a land of infinite promise, ripe for policy plundering.

News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.

Anyway, our time was fully occupied in watching the brush-patch that sheltered our plundering friends.

That evening Malcolm witnessed the plundering of Fattehpore, which was permitted in retribution for its recent rebellion.

I was for attacking him, plundering his village, and burning it after the Pindharee fashion; and we could have done it easily.

In the rooms above they were still chasing, plundering, slaughtering; it sounded very far away.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to plundering, such as: greedy, marauding, rapacious, voracious, bloodthirsty, and carnivorous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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