plunder

Navy engaged with the British yet again, it also once more exposed American ships traveling Mediterranean to plunder from Barbary pirates, later resulting in the Second Barbary War.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

A special anti-graft court ordered his arrest Monday, days after Estrada, son of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada, was charged with plunder, defined in the Philippines as large-scale corruption.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

The movie toggles between the two narratives, slyly exploring the ways creators plunder the lives of those they know in the quest for a good story.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

But the preoccupations among the conquistadores are plunder, religious conversions or, in Magellan’s case, an impulse to bring the world to his feet by making it navigable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

It seemed to me that our own rules redoubled plunder.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs has long served as a conservation code, with supernatural guardians believed to punish anyone who plunders the forest for greed.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

It plunders parental fantasies about our children as future professional athletes.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2022

It has always been a taxing job, she says, but conditions have lately made it downright impossible, as staffing shortages nearly double her workload and a cost-of-living crisis plunders her modest paycheck.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

The narrator thinks about the way he plunders the lives of those around him.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018

She plunders men of their money, of their liberty, of their character.

From Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson

The hackers plundered $6.3 billion from the exchange’s digital wallets by breaking into a Binance engineer’s laptop, among other breaches, Binance said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

He played in a typically positive fashion, striking at 97.85 as he plundered 11 fours and two sixes before falling for 91, just short of a second ODI ton.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

An artwork plundered by the Nazis from the world-famous Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the family of a notorious SS collaborator in the Netherlands, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand told AFP Monday.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Kim Jong Un’s cyber army has plundered billions of dollars from the crypto industry in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

The result of their skills has been that Italy has been overrun by Charles, plundered by Louis, violated by Ferdinand, and insulted by the Swiss.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Think of American shipping companies plundering British ships, which was common practice once upon a time.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

It’s all chintzy and campy, the plundering of low-hanging fruit.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Estrada was charged in 2014 with plundering millions of dollars meant for government development projects, but the court acquitted him a decade later.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

It was there, at the outbreak of World War II, that he helped to “rebury” the treasures of the National Archaeological Museum to protect them from bombing raids, Nazi archaeologists and plundering soldiers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, and, as a result, his stock had never been higher.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller