plunders

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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 plunders parental fantasies about our children as future professional athletes.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022

To the extent that “Mortal Engines” resembles anything, it’s other movies, which it plunders with a landfill-diving zeal that suits the surviving populace.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2018

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

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018

Of all the plunders of mankind, More gross, or frequent, none, Than in their grief and joy misplac'd, Eternally are shown.

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward