DESPOILERS Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

despoilers

noun

plural of despoiler

as in robbers

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Set in 1935, amidst the Great Depression, Season 2 revolves around the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of bank robbers who stop in Derry to buy ammo and end up facing unimaginable horror.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
Several other law enforcement vehicles then pulled up with their lights and sirens activated, and the would-be robbers ran off.

— Todd Feurer, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

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Private corporations have long worked with the federal government to help disrupt cybercriminals, but largely as contractors fulfilling a support role, not digital saboteurs handed a target.

— Henry Larson, NPR, 15 Aug. 2026
But no regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president did tonight.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Definition of saboteurs

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The raiders’ prisoners are saved by Titus, a young man on a mysterious quest of his own, but once Bria is freed from captivity, Titus leaves her to fend for herself in the wilderness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
Known as the Danegeld, it was collected to pay Viking raiders to leave England alone.

— Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

Definition of raiders

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White was briefly granted an exception, but pirates attacked that attempt, stealing his supplies and forcing him back to England.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
In the national consciousness, Blackpool has become a morbid caricature of working-class Britain—a place where binge drinking, violence, and vomit are in view of teacup rides, kids on the beach, and plastic pirates.

— George Francis Lee, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026

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