pillage

That was Hirsh Jain’s intention, the filing said, citing an alleged text to Radha Jain in which he said: “I’m down to pillage the best devs at Palantir when they’re at their maximum richness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

“We’re not trying to pillage a bunch of officers from other agencies,” said Tim Oberle, an ICE spokesman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

A full-scale aid effort needs the warring parties to agree a ceasefire and to end pillage and extortion.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024

“We’re not going to sell to someone who is going to basically pillage the company,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

In days gone by, these men held Hypereia, a country of wide dancing grounds, but near them were overbearing Kyklopes, whose power could not be turned from pillage.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

It has now been a decade since that distinctive riff on “The Shining,” and for Byrne’s third feature, he once again pillages from indelible sources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

Around the ninth century, her remains were moved to the northern town of Downpatrick in hopes of avoiding the pillages of Vikings and others.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

The Empress controls the universe, and pillages the past for technologies to keep the universe safe from an alien species known as The Bleed.

From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2019

She pillages but also suavely synthesizes art’s eternal images of women from the Renaissance to Futurism and beyond: from Madonnas, angels and queens to warriors.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017

It means to say, that he robs and pillages us with his claw-like hands.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

Greece will in return receive 48 objects pillaged by Bulgarian troops from churches and monasteries in northern Greece during World War I.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Third, it was safer to have capital loaned out than in reserve, where it could be pillaged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

Thought to be almost 500 years old, this giant tree has weathered many storms and survived being pillaged for firewood in 1940s post-war Britain.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2024

Serrano spent his life alleging that he’d given Rulfo a manuscript of his poetry that was never returned — and that Rulfo had pillaged it for ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

We do know that afterward, the woman staring out of the painting—Lisa Gherardini—will watch as the city around her is invaded and pillaged.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Another, less grand perhaps, is the closeness of a community like Fairfax, where people volunteer their time to keep their facility open, while serial fraudsters are indicted for pillaging hospitals and overbilling the government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Throughout, “Pirates Wanted” explores how to navigate complicated family drama and romantic relationships when value systems — you know, looting and pillaging versus not — don’t align.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

He also warned against "unhindered urbanisation" and criticised the "pillaging" of natural aquifers by the agriculture and construction industries.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024

Eventually, however, humanity will have to get its act together and stop pillaging the environment in order to survive.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2023

While Seabiscuit had spent the summer pillaging the West, War Admiral had been plundering the East with four triumphs in succession.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand