freebooting
Example Sentences
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The example they set by monetizing Greek military talent would lure many others into the freebooting life and ultimately lead, seven decades later, to the enormous plundering raids of Alexander the Great.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
And throughout the decades before the Civil War, there were numerous “filibusters”: expeditions by private, freebooting U.S. citizens to take over portions of Central America, Mexico, Cuba and even Canada.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
Moreover, Facebook has long been home to reappropriated content, from the freebooting scandal during 2017’s pivot to video to the more recent phenomenon of Instagram’s Reels being flooded with videos bearing TikTok watermarks.
From The Verge ● Aug. 27, 2021
In response, Facebook introduced technology in August that’s aimed at identifying and ultimately stopping instances of freebooting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2015
One can conceive St. John's as the ideal pirate lair of a romance-maker of the Stevensonian tradition, and one can understand it appealing to the bold, freebooting instincts of the first daring settlers.
From Westward with the Prince of Wales by W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton
