plunder

Navy engaged with the British yet again, it also once more exposed American ships traveling Mediterranean to plunder from Barbary pirates, later resulting in the Second Barbary War.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

A special anti-graft court ordered his arrest Monday, days after Estrada, son of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada, was charged with plunder, defined in the Philippines as large-scale corruption.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

And hey, did you know that the word “raptor”—which is often used to describe birds of prey—comes from the Latin verb rapio, which means to plunder, rob, ravish, or abduct?

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

One of the downsides of our movie-mad filmmakers — the Quentin Tarantinos who happily plunder from cinema’s illustrious past — is that their worldview can be myopic beyond what’s up there on the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

They were greedy for plunder and booty and pleased to be on what they were sure would be the winning side.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

A blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs has long served as a conservation code, with supernatural guardians believed to punish anyone who plunders the forest for greed.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

It has always been a taxing job, she says, but conditions have lately made it downright impossible, as staffing shortages nearly double her workload and a cost-of-living crisis plunders her modest paycheck.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

The seven-minute odyssey plunders rock’s then-forbidden city with burbling basslines and guitar wizardry so breathtaking nobody bothered to revoke Greenwood’s daytime-radio visa.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2020

The narrator thinks about the way he plunders the lives of those around him.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018

I think, ef there is any human critter on arth who is meaner than another, it is the one who plunders the people, all the while purtending to be a patriot.

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba

He played in a typically positive fashion, striking at 97.85 as he plundered 11 fours and two sixes before falling for 91, just short of a second ODI ton.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Hermann Goering, a top Nazi official, plundered Goudstikker's entire collection when the art dealer fled to England in 1940.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

An artwork plundered by the Nazis from the world-famous Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the family of a notorious SS collaborator in the Netherlands, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand told AFP Monday.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Kyiv plundered warehouses for veteran Soviet antiaircraft guns and fitted heavy machine guns, some almost a century old, with thermal imaging systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

‘I may have to report that. The prisoners are not to be searched or plundered: those are my orders.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

It’s all chintzy and campy, the plundering of low-hanging fruit.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Estrada was charged in 2014 with plundering millions of dollars meant for government development projects, but the court acquitted him a decade later.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

It was there, at the outbreak of World War II, that he helped to “rebury” the treasures of the National Archaeological Museum to protect them from bombing raids, Nazi archaeologists and plundering soldiers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

The county’s lawsuit accuses Viet America Society executives of “brazenly” plundering taxpayer money meant to feed needy seniors during the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024

When she was a woman grown, well past thirty as she reckoned it, with one husband buried—but the master had given her another—armies, plundering and burning, had come from the North to set them free.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin