Etymology
Origin of banditry
Example Sentences
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Another candidate, Faya Millimono, complained of "electoral banditry" linked, he said, to influence exerted on voters.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
Some Nigerians welcomed U.S. intervention, citing their own government’s failure to make headway against terrorism and banditry since the kidnapping of the Chibok girls more than a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Access to ransom money has traditionally made banditry a lucrative endeavour, yet in Kurfi, it was bandit leaders who requested peace talks.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Nearly two-thirds of its 213 million people live on less than $2 a day; extremist violence and banditry are rife; and life expectancy is just 53, nine years below the African average.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
Thus, then, for the first time in Triplanetary's history, the forces of law and order joined hands with those of piracy and banditry against a common foe.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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