buccaneering

Example Sentences

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And Mahomes himself has been a shadow of the buccaneering quarterback who reinvented the position at the peak of his powers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

It was a buccaneering innings full of trademark shots square of the wicket as he cut, dabbed, pulled and effortlessly flicked his way to three figures.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024

Fred Goodwin did that in buccaneering and bullying style, trampling over the older canny values of conventional Scottish finance with the goal of creating a global giant.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2023

“So that the audience doesn’t experience the change between the ‘40s and ‘60s as an intellectual conceit, but literally experiences the buccaneering spirit of those early days … and then the beginning of now.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

The buccaneering chieftains in the Iliad did not want justice.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton