pillage

That was Hirsh Jain’s intention, the filing said, citing an alleged text to Radha Jain in which he said: “I’m down to pillage the best devs at Palantir when they’re at their maximum richness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

“We’re not trying to pillage a bunch of officers from other agencies,” said Tim Oberle, an ICE spokesman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

A full-scale aid effort needs the warring parties to agree a ceasefire and to end pillage and extortion.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024

In theory, pirates plunder and pillage outside the law, while corsairs were privateers regulated by authorities.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024

In days gone by, these men held Hypereia, a country of wide dancing grounds, but near them were overbearing Kyklopes, whose power could not be turned from pillage.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

It has now been a decade since that distinctive riff on “The Shining,” and for Byrne’s third feature, he once again pillages from indelible sources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

Around the ninth century, her remains were moved to the northern town of Downpatrick in hopes of avoiding the pillages of Vikings and others.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

The Empress controls the universe, and pillages the past for technologies to keep the universe safe from an alien species known as The Bleed.

From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2019

She pillages but also suavely synthesizes art’s eternal images of women from the Renaissance to Futurism and beyond: from Madonnas, angels and queens to warriors.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017

The Naïb of Damascus being jealous of Attaf's intimacy with Ja'afar imprisons him for treason and pillages his property.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Third, it was safer to have capital loaned out than in reserve, where it could be pillaged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

"Do not let your lands be pillaged... or your homes given over to the invaders," he said on social media.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

The so-called “treasures of the seas” aren’t going to be pillaged without our help, and I soon find myself improvising sea shanties and engaging in a game of liar’s dice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

That’s due, in large part, to the University of Washington — which opted to join the Big Ten Conference and leave the Pac-12 to be pillaged.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Until recently, art hadn’t been stolen—it had been pillaged.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Another, less grand perhaps, is the closeness of a community like Fairfax, where people volunteer their time to keep their facility open, while serial fraudsters are indicted for pillaging hospitals and overbilling the government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

It was a far cry from the claims of "looting and pillaging".

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

“We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

Eventually, however, humanity will have to get its act together and stop pillaging the environment in order to survive.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2023

Stravinsky had mischievous fun pillaging music’s dusty back catalogue with the ballet Pulcinella for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company in 1920.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall