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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

Najib, who has been tried and convicted in multiple cases, has been jailed and fined $2.8 billion for his role in the plunder.

From Barron's ● May 13, 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

She thought about the mayor, down in his room full of plunder, gorging on peaches and asparagus and wrapping his huge body in elegant new clothes.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

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

To the extent that “Mortal Engines” resembles anything, it’s other movies, which it plunders with a landfill-diving zeal that suits the surviving populace.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2018

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

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018

Before anyone calls a lawyer, it is important to say that the Ontario woman whose life she plunders most is herself.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012

The miser and the usurer said: "Doubtless this man plunders the provinces."

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

It is a far cry from 2023-24 when he plundered 19 Premier League goals, and 27 in all competitions.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Brand believes the painting had been plundered by Hermann Goering, one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, when Goudstikker fled for Britain in 1940.

From BBC ● 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

Khawaja has so far plundered 6,206 runs with 16 centuries and 28 half-centuries, averaging 43.39.

From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026

By mid-May he had reached the head of the East Rongbuk Glacier at 21,000 feet, where he plundered a supply of food and equipment cached by Eric Shipton’s unsuccessful 1933 expedition.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

"If Auroville," which has a big international profile and has been praised by UNESCO, "does not hold out against the plundering and devastation of our natural resources, then we are all doomed," he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 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

Haaland swept all before him in his first season in England, plundering 52 goals in 53 games as City claimed a Treble of Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup.

From BBC ● May 17, 2025

The survivors immediately pounced upon the bodies of their fallen comrades, plundering weapons and objects of clothing that they had coveted.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques