bandit
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This was mainly confined to the Boko Haram strongholds of the north-east or the bandit zones of the north-west - areas that are largely Muslim.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Philipp Harms and I modeled this as a two-armed bandit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The country is also mired in multiple security crises -- from jihadists, non-ideological "bandit" gangs, farmers and herders fighting over land, and a simmering separatist conflict.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bernthal, who plays Sonny, has his own wayward machismo and hapless sensitivity, the very qualities that made Al Pacino unforgettable in the role of the bungling bandit with a Catholic conscience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
“Well, if you’re not a bandit, you will have to go home very soon, and there is no point in teaching you how to live on fish and bark and plants.”
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The life of a superhero lends itself well to gallivanting through galaxies, battling space pirates and star bandits.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
On 6 June, a video surfaced online showing the retired general and his wife appealing to the Katsina government to release detained bandits and their livestock in exchange for their freedom.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
The Rams made out like bandits when the Falcons struggled and the pick they got back turned out to land at No. 13.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
There can be no doubt that in tax terms, America’s wealthiest families make out like bandits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
Surely the combination of fire, smoke, the stink of caverns, and bandits with decoy sweat would conceal their scent.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
There are gold mines and roving banditti; mules are branded, and dung is hauled to smoke out grasshoppers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2018
One internal British memo portrayed him after victory as demanding the runaways be returned "with all the grossness and ferocity of a captain of banditti".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017
These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you think, O blue eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all?
From Time Magazine Archive
They were known after awhile as banditti, the banished men, the men who had been driven out of civilized society.
From The Childhood of Rome by Louise Lamprey
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