banditry
Example Sentences
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Another candidate, Faya Millimono, complained of "electoral banditry" linked, he said, to influence exerted on voters.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
Some Nigerians welcomed U.S. intervention, citing their own government’s failure to make headway against terrorism and banditry since the kidnapping of the Chibok girls more than a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Access to ransom money has traditionally made banditry a lucrative endeavour, yet in Kurfi, it was bandit leaders who requested peace talks.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Even those who dislike the current regime say banditry, kidnapping and corruption, which were rampant under the previous governments, have been largely reined in.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Burdened by the malaise it contracted from the Ottoman Empire, it was plagued by poverty, banditry, illiteracy, blood feuds, disease and the slavery of women and of peasants.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
