plunder

California’s new Yankee masters were men of industry, which also sometimes looked like reckless plunder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

He might shamelessly plunder the sonics of decades of deep-fried and gravy-smothered hits.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

His amateur soccer grit led him to plunder 41 goals in 69 games in Belgium, which earned him a move to Bloom’s flagship club in the English Premier League, Brighton and Hove Albion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

A special anti-graft court ordered his arrest Monday, days after Estrada, son of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada, was charged with plunder, defined in the Philippines as large-scale corruption.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

We are all our beautiful bodies and so must never be prostrate before barbarians, must never submit our original self, our one of one, to defiling and plunder.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs has long served as a conservation code, with supernatural guardians believed to punish anyone who plunders the forest for greed.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

It has always been a taxing job, she says, but conditions have lately made it downright impossible, as staffing shortages nearly double her workload and a cost-of-living crisis plunders her modest paycheck.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

The narrator thinks about the way he plunders the lives of those around him.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018

Before anyone calls a lawyer, it is important to say that the Ontario woman whose life she plunders most is herself.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012

Besides, if an officer plunders before his men, what may not soldiers be expected to do?

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

The hackers plundered $6.3 billion from the exchange’s digital wallets by breaking into a Binance engineer’s laptop, among other breaches, Binance said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It is a far cry from 2023-24 when he plundered 19 Premier League goals, and 27 in all competitions.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Kim Jong Un’s cyber army has plundered billions of dollars from the crypto industry in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Cambodian monks chanted blessings and scattered flowers Friday over 74 cultural artefacts returned to the country after being plundered by a notorious British antiques smuggler.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

By mid-May he had reached the head of the East Rongbuk Glacier at 21,000 feet, where he plundered a supply of food and equipment cached by Eric Shipton’s unsuccessful 1933 expedition.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Think of American shipping companies plundering British ships, which was common practice once upon a time.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

The example they set by monetizing Greek military talent would lure many others into the freebooting life and ultimately lead, seven decades later, to the enormous plundering raids of Alexander the Great.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

"If Auroville," which has a big international profile and has been praised by UNESCO, "does not hold out against the plundering and devastation of our natural resources, then we are all doomed," he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

It’s all chintzy and campy, the plundering of low-hanging fruit.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The survivors immediately pounced upon the bodies of their fallen comrades, plundering weapons and objects of clothing that they had coveted.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques