bandit
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The local bandit leader has become the de facto authority, and that families look to him to solve domestic disputes, she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The country is also mired in multiple security crises -- from jihadists, non-ideological "bandit" gangs, farmers and herders fighting over land, and a simmering separatist conflict.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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
“Stand and deliver! I am an anonymous bandit, and you do not need to know my name!”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
There can be no doubt that in tax terms, America’s wealthiest families make out like bandits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
Though he still chased bandits on horseback, the work was generally less dangerous; in many cases, it involved unmasking individuals who had filed false claims for reimbursements.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania.
From Time Magazine Archive
Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'll let you in, captain, and a banditti is like a cat, where the head can get in, the body will follow.
From The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts by John O'Keeffe
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