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Recent Examples of Synonyms for despoiler
Noun
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Such invective, coming from a saboteur with firsthand experience of institutional prudishness, put DeGenevieve in a paradoxical position: that of a professor who, because she was tenured, had the luxury of deriding her own ivory tower.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025 -
Before the computer age, saboteurs had trouble calibrating and controlling the effects of their actions.—
Thomas Rid,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Nov. 2013
Noun
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The sheltering animals become a makeshift community of helpmates, but marauders onshore, and in the air, abound.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Nov. 2024
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In the story, that turmoil included tsarist marauders that disturbed, or pogrommed, Jews.—
Dave Gordon,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2024
Noun
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For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
13 Jan. 2025
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Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
24 Oct. 2024
Noun
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British Navy personnel stationed in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea had seen how fast Arab dhows secretly armed with a three-pounder gun and a machine gun successfully defeated pirates and slave raiders.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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What a week to revive a musical comedy about corporate raiders sabotaging the public good.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Ryles is a leader and 5-foot-3 game wrecker whose 29 points gave the Baltimore native 87 over three games this week.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Feb. 2025
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The 18-wheeler overturned, and a heavy-duty wrecker was called to remove it.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Franchetti commanded destroyers and aircraft carriers before taking over the entire Sixth Fleet.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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In October 2024, a pair of Chinese destroyers visited Vanuatu, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Underneath the pirate is a shadowing within the bolt of a floral motif pattern inspired by the tiles at the Columbia Restaurant.—
Eduardo A. Encina,
Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2025
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The float that received one of the bigger reactions was a wooden pirate ship built on a RV chassis.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Despoiler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despoiler. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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