bandit
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Philipp Harms and I modeled this as a two-armed bandit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Nigeria's police and military have long been overstretched: across its north, Africa's most populous country is fighting a long-running jihadist insurgency, complicated by inroads made by militants from the Sahel, and non-ideological "bandit" gangs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Bernthal, who plays Sonny, has his own wayward machismo and hapless sensitivity, the very qualities that made Al Pacino unforgettable in the role of the bungling bandit with a Catholic conscience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
One sculpture transforms the European hero Robin Hood into an African bandit queen who raided slave traders and freed their captives.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
In addition to his customary thick glasses, he wore a handkerchief tied ’round his nose and mouth, like a bandit.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
The life of a superhero lends itself well to gallivanting through galaxies, battling space pirates and star bandits.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
On 6 June, a video surfaced online showing the retired general and his wife appealing to the Katsina government to release detained bandits and their livestock in exchange for their freedom.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
The U.K. government has advised against nearly all travel to the Central African Republic, and Brown said he was warned about rebel fighters, bandits, poachers, Russian mercenaries, dengue fever and the Ebola virus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
The military is stretched thin on other fronts as well, including fighting armed gangs known as "bandits" in the northwest and separatists in the southeast.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
He fears being attacked by bandits outside his circle of friends.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
There are gold mines and roving banditti; mules are branded, and dung is hauled to smoke out grasshoppers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2018
One internal British memo portrayed him after victory as demanding the runaways be returned "with all the grossness and ferocity of a captain of banditti".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017
Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stalin has surrounded himself with as intelligent a group of banditti as ever started out to sack and dominate the universe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then came Chow, who, running forward, said, "We are lost, O my master, for there are banditti near."
From The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton
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