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

It’s like showing a burglar a vulnerable window, then asking him to figure out the best way to break inside and pillage the place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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 days gone by, these men held Hypereia, a country of wide dancing grounds, but near them were overbearing Kyklopes, whose power could not be turned from pillage.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

Pope, like Boileau, had all the ancients and moderns in his pay; the contributions he levied were not the pillages of a bandit, but the taxes of a monarch.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli

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

That’s due, in large part, to the University of Washington — which opted to join the Big Ten Conference and leave the Pac-12 to be pillaged.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

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

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023

Until recently, art hadn’t been stolen—it had been pillaged.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Another, less grand perhaps, is the closeness of a community like Fairfax, where people volunteer their time to keep their facility open, while serial fraudsters are indicted for pillaging hospitals and overbilling the government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

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

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

Eventually, however, humanity will have to get its act together and stop pillaging the environment in order to survive.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2023

While Seabiscuit had spent the summer pillaging the West, War Admiral had been plundering the East with four triumphs in succession.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand