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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a plundering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an act of stealing or taking goods by force, often in a violent or aggressive manner.
Example: "The village suffered greatly after a plundering by the invading forces, leaving homes and businesses in ruins."
Alternatives: "a looting" or "a pillaging".
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"That means going after officials who abuse ordinary Afghans and drive them to the other side -- a plundering landlord or a brutal, thieving cop".
Pratchett has, in the past, called it both a plundering of and a tribute to Tolkien and the other fantasy writers – from ER Eddison to Ursula Le Guin.
"That means going after officials who abuse ordinary Afghans and drive them to the other side — a plundering landlord or a brutal, thieving cop".
In both cases, teachers have fought against public education budget cuts at a time of upward redistribution of wealth, hollowing out of public goods and assault by a plundering billionaire class – and won.
The future of film, he anticipated, correctly in terms of the 1980s, would mirror the desecration that had befallen the west - a plundering by greedy prospectors, a homogenisation of the medium, "an endless stream of sequels and look-alikes".
According to a nearly contemporaneous source, Solomon died on a plundering raid in the Byzantine Empire.
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"It is a plunder.
Showing that a plundered book is not the only source is also a defence.
These dishes are rich, a plunder of animal salts, and yet the chicken is what I remember.
However, so far he has been unable to slow a plunder that has crippled Iraq's governance.
Even carnivorous fish can be fed sustainably, by feeding them on fish that has been caught from a renewable (and not a plundered) fishery.
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