bandits

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Traditional western dramas were more likely to depict vaqueros as bandits than hard-working ranch hands whose contributions were fundamental to the American West.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 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

A security report cited by AFP said bandits came on "41 motorcycles, each carrying two or three men".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

In the northwest, the biggest security concern is that from criminal gangs known as bandits.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

When they were far away from the bandits, they traded a few careful whispers.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin