pillage

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

That was Hirsh Jain’s intention, the filing said, citing an alleged text to Radha Jain in which he said: “I’m down to pillage the best devs at Palantir when they’re at their maximum richness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

A full-scale aid effort needs the warring parties to agree a ceasefire and to end pillage and extortion.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024

“We’re not going to sell to someone who is going to basically pillage the company,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

"Telling Shagga and Timett how to pillage is like telling a rooster how to crow," Tyrion commented, "but I should prefer to keep them with me."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

The people of Kachmyr have so often been subject to invasions and pillages and have had so many masters, that they have now become indifferent to every thing.

From The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery by Nicolas Notovitch

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

"Do not let your lands be pillaged... or your homes given over to the invaders," he said on social media.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

The so-called “treasures of the seas” aren’t going to be pillaged without our help, and I soon find myself improvising sea shanties and engaging in a game of liar’s dice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

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

The Czartoryski Museum in Kraków had been pillaged.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Roberts’ family attorney Alan Jackson, however, said “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