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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ransack .
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Examples
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When a dead Nazi falls from the sky via parachute, he ransacks the body for food.
“City of Thieves” by David Benioff (Viking Adult, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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When a dead Nazi falls from the sky via parachute, he ransacks the body for food.
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It then ransacks the publicly available Facebook "status updates" and displays what it finds.
How Facebook is sharing our secrets with the whole world 2010
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Quinn ransacks history and myth for his wonderfully realised paintings, fusing conspiracy theory, strange cults and Nazi archaeology against a backdrop of classical painting.
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So he comes over with a friend and ransacks her house to help her so they'll want to move out.
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: From Convalescent Home to Roman Orgy 2010
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I think the writer I†™ d really like to be is Haruki Murakami, largely because he ransacks genres and nobody blinks.
Yatterings » End of the World Blues – Jon Courtenay Grimwood interviewed 2007
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The group includes a ruined businessman (Steven Weber), who ransacks Ann's purse then leaves her with the very steep dinner check, and a martinet career military man (Chris Noth).
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This is a governor who ransacks the U.S. treasury for support of her oil rich but otherwise poor state, yet will slap the same government in the face when it appears expedient to do so.
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Whitetail Break-In: Deer jumps through window and ransacks motor home
Whitetail Break-In: Deer jumps through window and ransacks motor home Dave Hurteau 2006
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Whitetail Break-In: Deer jumps through window and ransacks motor home | Field & Stream
Whitetail Break-In: Deer jumps through window and ransacks motor home Dave Hurteau 2006
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