as in invader
one that starts armed conflict against another especially without reasonable cause
villagers lived in constant fear of the raiders, who captured their women and children and sold them into slavery
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Recent Examples of raider
All that maritime commerce also attracted its fair share of Viking raiders from Scandinavia.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
Give me raiders of the lost past, any day, and forgive them their lack of footnotes.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
The raiders just went on a 7-0 run to take a 68-67 lead with under six minutes to play.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
Idaho’s pest management programs traditionally deal with agrarian problems, like noxious weeds, or agricultural raiders like pocket gophers, marmots or voracious insects.
—Mark Dee
march 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
Give me raiders of the lost past, any day, and forgive them their lack of footnotes.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
The raiders just went on a 7-0 run to take a 68-67 lead with under six minutes to play.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
Idaho’s pest management programs traditionally deal with agrarian problems, like noxious weeds, or agricultural raiders like pocket gophers, marmots or voracious insects.
—Mark Dee
march 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raider
invader
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The resident escaped, but by the time police had responded to the scene, the home invaders had fled.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The ratio acts as a record of the chemical environment of 3I/ATLAS' home system, having remained intact throughout the interstellar invader's long journey to the solar system.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Raider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raider. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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