bandit

In the bandit heartlands of north-west Nigeria, the number of incidents recorded by the international conflict monitoring group Acled rose 78% in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Philipp Harms and I modeled this as a two-armed bandit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

It was the morning after their encounter with Sciron the bandit, and Jason was on duty, fighting some wild venti who were threatening the ship.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The life of a superhero lends itself well to gallivanting through galaxies, battling space pirates and star bandits.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 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

A security report cited by AFP said bandits came on "41 motorcycles, each carrying two or three men".

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

There can be no doubt that in tax terms, America’s wealthiest families make out like bandits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

For all they could ascertain, the bandits had turned into ghosts and melted through the upstairs walls; they had simply evaporated.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

The Italians idolize Grand Prix drivers, artists, novelists and occasionally Sicilian banditti.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Yes, I've heard of such places; but you say you have been in the cave where these ruffian banditti live?

From The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts by John O'Keeffe