plundered

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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

In an abandoned warehouse in Johannesburg, Prof Grace sets out her high-stakes plan - to break into museums and private collections and take back artefacts mostly plundered during colonial times.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

He ran up debts, plundered her money and spun a story about a blackmailer from prison coming for them.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

The case also ensnared global banking firm Goldman Sachs, which helped raise $6.5 billion for the now-defunct fund that prosecutors say was plundered of $4.5 billion between 2009 and 2015.

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

In peacetime you are plundered by them, in war by your enemies.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli