bandit
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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
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
He recently blamed "bandit" smugglers for the balloons, saying they were just seeking a profit and getting creative about overcoming the new security fence.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
He looked like a fat child sitting beside the bandit, eager for attention.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
The life of a superhero lends itself well to gallivanting through galaxies, battling space pirates and star bandits.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
On 6 June, a video surfaced online showing the retired general and his wife appealing to the Katsina government to release detained bandits and their livestock in exchange for their freedom.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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
There can be no doubt that in tax terms, America’s wealthiest families make out like bandits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
First thing in the morning, when the doors reopened, she needed to search through the Dewey decimal rooms to find a clue that would tell her exactly how and where the bandits had crawled in.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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
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
Neither contingency was unlikely, for the writ of the king ran barely a league from the army, and the country was full of banditti.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
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