buccaneering
Example Sentences
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Adnoc’s maritime logistics company is one of a buccaneering group staging daring “shuttle runs,” where tankers make short trips moving oil from the U.A.E. and other Persian Gulf terminals to ports just outside Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
And Mahomes himself has been a shadow of the buccaneering quarterback who reinvented the position at the peak of his powers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
Fred Goodwin did that in buccaneering and bullying style, trampling over the older canny values of conventional Scottish finance with the goal of creating a global giant.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
Their buccaneering batting is made all the more thrilling by the risk of it going spectacularly wrong, like watching a tightrope walker tiptoe between skyscrapers.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
The buccaneering chieftains in the Iliad did not want justice.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
