as in robbery
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as in plundering
to search through with the intent of committing robbery
the bandits looted the archaeological dig before riding off into the night
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Noun
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An off-duty Kane County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot an armed South Elgin man during an alleged Elgin robbery this summer was justified in his actions, according to a results of a Kane County Major Crimes Task Force investigation.—
Courier-News,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025 -
The eleventh man, who wasn’t present during the robbery itself, met them later that night at a safehouse.—
Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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
Noun
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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
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“Looting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looting. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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