as in to loot
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
in jail for robbing a bank
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Recent Examples of rob
False information about when and where to vote can confuse people and rob them of their vote as well as generally erode confidence in elections and democracy.
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science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
Two men have been convicted of robbing an off-duty Secret Service agent at gunpoint after the agent had finished working at a Los Angeles fundraiser that President Joe Biden attended, prosecutors said Monday.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
However, the show wisely uses him sparingly as not to rob Kiryu and Nishiki of their limelight.
—Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
In straining so hard to communicate youthful vitality, Gold mostly robs the show of its violent delights.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
Two men have been convicted of robbing an off-duty Secret Service agent at gunpoint after the agent had finished working at a Los Angeles fundraiser that President Joe Biden attended, prosecutors said Monday.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
However, the show wisely uses him sparingly as not to rob Kiryu and Nishiki of their limelight.
—Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
In straining so hard to communicate youthful vitality, Gold mostly robs the show of its violent delights.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent decades have seen the repatriation of Khmer artifacts from abroad, some of which were looted in the 1970s during the period of violence and instability under the communist Khmer Rouge regime, per the Associated Press.Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
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Since 2022, the detainees are believed to have looted millions of euros and run up a similar amount in property damage, from 2022 to 2024, Europol said.Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
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The Rams sacked him seven times in their overtime win last Sunday.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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The Titans’ best chance to score was snuffed out near the end of the first half when Mountain View’s Kaitlyn Liddle roared in to sack sophomore quarterback Kelsey Peterson.Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2024
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Another complained that police didn’t do anything after his home was burglarized.Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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According to Vanity Fair, he was first hired by Kitty and José after the brothers were caught burglarizing two homes.Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
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A week after Helene smashed into the Southeast, power outages, water shortages and impassable roads stymie recovery Tropical systems, of course, can plunder coastlines.Sharif Paget, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
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And neither Coppola nor Snyder deals with how ideologues have plundered the West.Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
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Scientists are also trying to exploit the fungus’s sensitivity to temperature by building Bd-free habitats or moving frogs to locales where the fungus can’t survive.Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
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Still, just last year, Chinese hackers exploited Microsoft security lapses to breach the email accounts of senior U.S. officials.Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
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Almost all of our renters still love the vibe of a downtown space that, unlike so much of our neighborhood, hasn’t been completely stripped of its character.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Put another way: If Trump were elected and decided to make Project 2025 a reality, his administration would take an existing piece of bureaucratic infrastructure, strip it of many of those who can check its power, and then wield that power to ideological ends and against their political enemies.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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The post comes as Trump has for days basely accused the key battleground state of cheating.Luke Barr, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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The activation comes amid a particularly tense election year, with former President Trump, the Republican nominee, already claiming that Democrats are cheating.Brad Dress, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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He was incensed, mistakenly believing that the notepads had been burgled from his barn.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Nobody, a box office hit in 2021, followed Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk), a docile family man who slowly reveals his true character after his house gets burgled, leading him into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 July 2024
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“Rob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rob. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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