as in burglarized
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully in jail for robbing a bank
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Mike Defabo, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026 The terrifying story of how Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in 2016 is being made into a Canal+ doc series. —Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026 Customers and staff were robbed at gunpoint inside a River North diner early Thursday morning. —Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 Think your team just got robbed? —Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026 The historian added that some of the outlaws held Hart hostage, while the other half of the gang robbed the treasury, just half a mile away. —Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026 Sluggish growth, low interest rates and the vaporization of middle-class wealth after the 2008 financial crisis had robbed financiers of profitable deals in the Global North. —Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 According to the group, reporters were beaten with riot shields, pepper sprayed and robbed of equipment. —Antonio MarĂa Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026 The man had been robbed, and his credit card had been used all over town. —Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Mike Defabo, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026 The terrifying story of how Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in 2016 is being made into a Canal+ doc series. —Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026 Customers and staff were robbed at gunpoint inside a River North diner early Thursday morning. —Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 Think your team just got robbed? —Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026 The historian added that some of the outlaws held Hart hostage, while the other half of the gang robbed the treasury, just half a mile away. —Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026 Sluggish growth, low interest rates and the vaporization of middle-class wealth after the 2008 financial crisis had robbed financiers of profitable deals in the Global North. —Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 According to the group, reporters were beaten with riot shields, pepper sprayed and robbed of equipment. —Antonio MarĂa Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026 The man had been robbed, and his credit card had been used all over town. —Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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Early Saturday morning, a Sherman Oaks jewelry store was broken into when suspects tunneled through the wall of the store's bathroom, and earlier in the week, a Valley Glen home became one of at least five homes burglarized in the last week.— Brittney Ermon, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
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Dehydration dogs their journey, and local ranchers have found their homes burglarized by travelers in search of sustenance.— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
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The 2025 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, expands on a 2016 law, signed by President Barack Obama, that permits victims and descendants of victims of the Holocaust to lay legal claim to works of art looted by the Nazis or sold to the Nazis under false pretenses.— Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
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All the State Forensic Authority’s DNA analysis labs were looted and destroyed in the fighting.— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
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Ravens quarterbacks were sacked 45 times in 2025, including 38 against Lamar Jackson.— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
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On the night their cup opponent sacked their second head coach in four months, four days before kick-off, with their campaign in tatters, United’s 20-man squad smashed through another brick wall.— Beren Cross, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
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Magyar has called for all of Orbán’s cronies in the government to resign and has committed to holding to account those who plundered Hungary.— Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
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The collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity and the company’s management, has generated a painful litany of woes.— Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2026
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Just last month, Ferguson was stripped of her Freedom of the City of York honor.— Janelle Ash , Ashley Papa , Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
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What does rankle, however, is that that by glossing over such matters, the final film has been mostly stripped of any humanity, good and bad.— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
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He’s beaten by thugs with a crowbar for an unfortunate outburst, exploited by neighbors in the council estate and arrested, all because people don’t understand Tourette syndrome.— Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
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With that growth, gaps in oversight have been exploited by a small number of bad actors delivering substandard, and in many cases no, care.— Tom Koutsoumpas, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
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That’s the kind of corporate doublespeak that makes consumers feel cheated and disrespected.— Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
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Schiller is a man who cheated death and whose harrowing ordeal is dramatized by actor Tony Shalhoub in a recent movie.— Troy Roberts, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
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