pillage

It has had to pillage its reserve funds in recent years, and on Wednesday the school board adopted a budget that cuts administrative staff and some school employees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

In the UK the practice reportedly links back to the Viking pillage of Lindisfarne.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

“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 theory, pirates plunder and pillage outside the law, while corsairs were privateers regulated by authorities.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024

"Telling Shagga and Timett how to pillage is like telling a rooster how to crow," Tyrion commented, "but I should prefer to keep them with me."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

The Naïb of Damascus being jealous of Attaf's intimacy with Ja'afar imprisons him for treason and pillages his property.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The film -- with a high-voltage cast led by Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway, and produced by Universal -- pillaged earlier estimates that forecast an opening weekend haul of less than $100 million.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 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

They’ve pillaged and rampaged their way there, destroying everyone in their path while scoring 15 times in three playoff wins in which they’ve never trailed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2024

As well as weathering many storms, it survived being pillaged for firewood in 1940s post-war Britain.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 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

Greeks who might have led decent lives tending their own crops and flocks were pillaging those of others, becoming in aggregate what Mr. O’Connell describes as “a near-perfect predator.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Roberts’ family attorney Alan Jackson, however, said that “Kelly is not pillaging anything.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

It was a far cry from the claims of "looting and pillaging".

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

Once upon a time, on June 15, 1859, 27-year-old Lyman Cutlar, a squatter on the island, discovered a pig pillaging his potatoes.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

Stravinsky had mischievous fun pillaging music’s dusty back catalogue with the ballet Pulcinella for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company in 1920.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall