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marauding

[muh-raw-ding] / məˈrɔ dɪŋ /




NOUN
rapacity
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The gang of marauding kids from that movie chased O’Brien through scenes of movies from “Marty Supreme” to an animated riff on “KPop Demon Hunters.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 2026

“And there’s lots of coyote scat — they’re just marauding around. The lizards are back and some of my roses survived.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 26, 2026

A snatch of traveler’s gossip could have meant the difference between staying alive and losing your head to marauding Vikings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

When Jonah Ayunga and his marauding band of brothers feasted on Celtic's desperate confusion and put them to sleep with two goals in a dozen second-half minutes, Hampden erupted.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2025

“I fail to see how that is possible, since he has been marauding for twenty years and you only left me three years ago.”

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman




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