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raider

[ rey-der ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that raids.
a commando, ranger, or the like, specially trained to participate in military raids.
a light, fast warship, aircraft, etc., used in such a raid.
a person who seizes control of a company, as by secretly buying stock and gathering proxies.
Informal. a person who works within an organization for the purpose of gathering evidence of wrongdoing.

Origin of raider¹

First recorded in 1860–65; raid + -er ¹

Spiders spin various shapes of outer sacs that discourage egg raiders.

The MSI GE76 Raider delivers the full desktop experience in a portable form factor.

Its most recent game, 2018’s “Shadow of the Tomb Raider,” sold more than 4 million copies.

Raiders cornerback Trayvon Mullen got only the second interception this season thrown by Patrick Mahomes.

The raiders hurt her, too, but another survivor helped feed her, and she recovered to found a new pack with him.

Icahn never liked—actually viscerally hated—the term corporate raider.

It happened a decade ago, when she was in Cambodia shooting the action movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Fearing more repressions, more raider takeovers of business, worse state corruption, people lose their optimism.

Peter Gross looked at him keenly, for Jahi was reputed to be the boldest raider and head-hunter in the hills.

"Boy Scouts of the Sea," watch us do our partIf a raider or a sub.

Entering, we found another whisky raid in progress, Slavin himself being the raider.

Yes, he was accused of violating the rules of war as a guerilla raider in the invasion of Pennsylvania.

For a few seconds the German raider continued to roar eastward.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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