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

In the UK the practice reportedly links back to the Viking pillage of Lindisfarne.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 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

“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

It means to say, that he robs and pillages us with his claw-like hands.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

If the days of Hearts lagging behind the Old Firm in the league are gone, the days of them being pillaged by the big two in Glasgow are not.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

This repatriated collection represents a minuscule fraction of the 7,000 pieces the French pillaged from their former colony — and that number applies only to what they took from this one location among many.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024

I can give no explanation how I came to this understanding, save that I did not want to become the blighted man who dangled before me, pillaged by the birds.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

Once upon a time, on June 15, 1859, 27-year-old Lyman Cutlar, a squatter on the island, discovered a pig pillaging his potatoes.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

He also warned against "unhindered urbanisation" and criticised the "pillaging" of natural aquifers by the agriculture and construction industries.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024

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

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2023

Stravinsky had mischievous fun pillaging music’s dusty back catalogue with the ballet Pulcinella for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company in 1920.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall