pillage
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That was Hirsh Jain’s intention, the filing said, citing an alleged text to Radha Jain in which he said: “I’m down to pillage the best devs at Palantir when they’re at their maximum richness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
“We’re not trying to pillage a bunch of officers from other agencies,” said Tim Oberle, an ICE spokesman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
A full-scale aid effort needs the warring parties to agree a ceasefire and to end pillage and extortion.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
“We’re not going to sell to someone who is going to basically pillage the company,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
In days gone by, these men held Hypereia, a country of wide dancing grounds, but near them were overbearing Kyklopes, whose power could not be turned from pillage.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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It has now been a decade since that distinctive riff on “The Shining,” and for Byrne’s third feature, he once again pillages from indelible sources.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
Around the ninth century, her remains were moved to the northern town of Downpatrick in hopes of avoiding the pillages of Vikings and others.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
The Empress controls the universe, and pillages the past for technologies to keep the universe safe from an alien species known as The Bleed.
From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2019
She pillages but also suavely synthesizes art’s eternal images of women from the Renaissance to Futurism and beyond: from Madonnas, angels and queens to warriors.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
They both remained looking at each other: a restless smile had risen to their lips, and Bongrand eventually added: 'There's a fellow who pillages you right and left.'
From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
Third, it was safer to have capital loaned out than in reserve, where it could be pillaged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
"Do not let your lands be pillaged... or your homes given over to the invaders," he said on social media.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
The so-called “treasures of the seas” aren’t going to be pillaged without our help, and I soon find myself improvising sea shanties and engaging in a game of liar’s dice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
That’s due, in large part, to the University of Washington — which opted to join the Big Ten Conference and leave the Pac-12 to be pillaged.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
We do know that afterward, the woman staring out of the painting—Lisa Gherardini—will watch as the city around her is invaded and pillaged.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Another, less grand perhaps, is the closeness of a community like Fairfax, where people volunteer their time to keep their facility open, while serial fraudsters are indicted for pillaging hospitals and overbilling the government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
It was a far cry from the claims of "looting and pillaging".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
“We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Eventually, however, humanity will have to get its act together and stop pillaging the environment in order to survive.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2023
While Seabiscuit had spent the summer pillaging the West, War Admiral had been plundering the East with four triumphs in succession.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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