bandit
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The local bandit leader has become the de facto authority, and that families look to him to solve domestic disputes, she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The country is also mired in multiple security crises -- from jihadists, non-ideological "bandit" gangs, farmers and herders fighting over land, and a simmering separatist conflict.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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
She put baby clear sky light to outwit the day light on her eyelids and touched bandit to her throat, earlobes, and wrists.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
"Nigeria is not safe -- terrorists, kidnappers, bandits everywhere," said Becky Alegbe, a street vendor in Abuja.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The life of a superhero lends itself well to gallivanting through galaxies, battling space pirates and star bandits.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
But in his victory speech, de la Espriella insisted that while he would come down hard on drug traffickers and "bandits", he would do so within the confines of the law and the constitution.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The U.K. government has advised against nearly all travel to the Central African Republic, and Brown said he was warned about rebel fighters, bandits, poachers, Russian mercenaries, dengue fever and the Ebola virus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 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
Do you think, O blue eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all?
From Time Magazine Archive
Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mercy on us! this is the great cock captain of the whole brood of banditti!
From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by George Colman
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