plunderer

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In 1811, the poet Lord Byron ridiculed him in the poem “The Curse of Minerva”: “England owns him not: Athena, no! thy plunderer was a Scot.”

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022

While Francisco Pizarro, plunderer of Peru, larger than life, looked on from his commensurate horse, I was being plundered in his home town.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

And it’s here that he spins out the material consequences of being plundered and the psychological impact of being the plunderer.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2017

No gimmick is beneath this group, which has become a prime plunderer of pop history in its quest for ubiquity.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2011

To call that feeling racial is to hand over all those diamonds, fashioned by our ancestors, to the plunderer.

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