buccaneering
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Adnoc’s maritime logistics company is one of a buccaneering group staging daring “shuttle runs,” where tankers make short trips moving oil from the U.A.E. and other Persian Gulf terminals to ports just outside Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
And Mahomes himself has been a shadow of the buccaneering quarterback who reinvented the position at the peak of his powers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
But Matthieu Jalibert, his replacement, has a similar buccaneering streak and the services of his captain and world's best scrum-half Antoine Dupont close at hand.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2023
“So that the audience doesn’t experience the change between the ‘40s and ‘60s as an intellectual conceit, but literally experiences the buccaneering spirit of those early days … and then the beginning of now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
The buccaneering chieftains in the Iliad did not want justice.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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