buccaneering

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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

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

England have won 11 of their past 13 Tests in buccaneering fashion.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2023

“So that the audience doesn’t experience the change between the ‘40s and ‘60s as an intellectual conceit, but literally experiences the buccaneering spirit of those early days … and then the beginning of now.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

The buccaneering chieftains in the Iliad did not want justice.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton