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  • noun Plural form of bandit.

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Examples

  • Spokesman Mohamed Qanyare Afrah said Aidid's forces in the region sometimes clashed with what he called bandits armed by

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • BAMAKO - Mali's defence ministry said 20 people died in raids by what it called bandits in the country's barren north.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • He condemned groups like the Abu Sayyaf, which he described as bandits "who exist for money and engage in forbidden business."

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • Mr. Medvedev said all those he calls bandits and scoundrels must realize that they can either give up or stay and be destroyed.

    Medvedev Orders Security Forces to Crush Militants 2011

  • By the time the pirates save Luffy and his town from a group of mountain bandits, the boy is hopelessly hooked on piracy as a career choice.

    Resetting sail 2010

  • We are famous now for lawlessness and vicious violence; we are known as bandits of the sea and for our religious zeal, our will to kill and die for nothing.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • We are famous now for lawlessness and vicious violence; we are known as bandits of the sea and for our religious zeal, our will to kill and die for nothing.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • We are famous now for lawlessness and vicious violence; we are known as bandits of the sea and for our religious zeal, our will to kill and die for nothing.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • (Incidentally, the Laffer maximum for banditry from a sedentary neighbor, where there are a few but not many competing bandits, is probably somewhere in between the maxima for fully roving and fully stationary bandits: Sides recounts how the Navajo would not steal every animal from their Pueblo or Mexican neighbors during raids, but made sure to leave them enough breeding stock to rebuild their herds).

    Hampton Sides sheds light on Mancur Olson and Ronald Coase « Isegoria 2008

  • Tuareg dissidents who refuse to recognise a 1992 pact between the government and four Tuareg groups are frequently referred to as bandits by the government.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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