bandit
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The local bandit leader has become the de facto authority, and that families look to him to solve domestic disputes, she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Nigeria's police and military have long been overstretched: across its north, Africa's most populous country is fighting a long-running jihadist insurgency, complicated by inroads made by militants from the Sahel, and non-ideological "bandit" gangs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 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
One sculpture transforms the European hero Robin Hood into an African bandit queen who raided slave traders and freed their captives.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
Samir patted the bandit on his slumping shoulder and said, “We’ll solve this, brother. Before you cross the desert.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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 U.K. government has advised against nearly all travel to the Central African Republic, and Brown said he was warned about rebel fighters, bandits, poachers, Russian mercenaries, dengue fever and the Ebola virus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
The military is stretched thin on other fronts as well, including fighting armed gangs known as "bandits" in the northwest and separatists in the southeast.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
I couldn’t protect us from bandits or sew leather into rough pouches.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Yes, I've heard of such places; but you say you have been in the cave where these ruffian banditti live?
From The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts by John O'Keeffe
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