bandit
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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
Ms Martin says it's only a matter of time before the masked bandit strikes the shopping centre again.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Ten riders, including “Rattlesnake” Pete and a presumably reformed Nebraska bandit named Doc Middleton, set out from the Baline Hotel in Chadron on the morning of June 14, 1893.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The life of a superhero lends itself well to gallivanting through galaxies, battling space pirates and star bandits.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
The Rams made out like bandits when the Falcons struggled and the pick they got back turned out to land at No. 13.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Traditional western dramas were more likely to depict vaqueros as bandits than hard-working ranch hands whose contributions were fundamental to the American West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
For years the bandits have mainly targeted those in the north-west of Nigeria - but they have been moving to other parts of the country, like Kwara and Niger states, more recently.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
But the attacks were sly, unpredictable, devastating; they sneaked up on him like bandits.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
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
Stalin has surrounded himself with as intelligent a group of banditti as ever started out to sack and dominate the universe.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not possible, my master; for to the right are the banditti, to the left the wolves.
From The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by Dalton, William
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