plundering

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Enzo Sereni grew up in Rome, a short walk from the Arch of Titus, with its engraved legionnaires celebrating the defeat of ancient Judea by plundering the Second Temple.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Rangers' problems seem to be at the back, with PSV plundering seven goals over two legs, which suggests Celtic will get chances, but is a shift in approach required to take them?

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

The framework for a second round of plundering is seemingly in place, but only if proper motivation exists on two fronts:

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2023

James imagines a young Indian woodcarver’s journey from Mysore to France in a story that considers plundering and debt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2023

When she was a woman grown, well past thirty as she reckoned it, with one husband buried—but the master had given her another—armies, plundering and burning, had come from the North to set them free.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin