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Noun
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Colbert was first arrested in New Orleans in 2012 and was charged with robbery, according to Orleans Parish court records.—
Ben Brachfeld,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025 -
Under new Maryland juvenile justice laws, crimes of violence, including robberies and carjackings, should automatically be forwarded to state’s attorney’s offices.—
Keith Daniels,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 2025
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For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes,
30 Sep. 2024
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Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings.—
Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
5 Oct. 2023
Noun
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Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2024
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Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.—
Leslie Camhi,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
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“Despoilment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despoilment. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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