loot
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He inherited the largest standing army in Europe but, Mr. Richardson notes, without tax revenues he would need to “beg, borrow and loot, just to keep his soldiers fed and paid.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“They had the time to go through the museum director’s desk and find the key. They could loot it all at their leisure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Now that the Champions League loot may be nigh we will get to see the scale of Celtic's ambition.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Just consider what the country’s top law-enforcement agencies have been buying with their new loot.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
I pretended not to care that they watched me like a zoo creature or potential source of loot.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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