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Recent Examples of break-in
Verb
Mabel and Charles follow leads after a break-in.—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 The jury also found Serafini guilty of first-degree burglary for the break-in at the couple’s West Lake Boulevard home.—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2025
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Iza had previously sent his security detail to Zelocchi’s house and tried to break in; Zelocchi had fired several rounds before police arrived.—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025 Though neither Levinson nor HBO have indicated that Euphoria season 3 will see a break in episode format.—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for break-in
The French fright fest features a very pregnant widow (Alysson Paradis) who sees her home invaded on Christmas Eve by a mysterious woman in black (Beatrice Dalle) dead set on cutting her baby out with some scissors.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
Licensing officials also investigated educators accused of grooming behaviors like flirting with children, spending non-school time alone and isolated with students, or invading students’ personal space by rubbing their shoulders, thighs and lower backs.
Three separate protesters interrupted the former vice president to heckle her about Palestine within minutes of her taking the stage at the Southbank Centre on Thursday night to promote her memoir, 107 Days.
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Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Those plans are interrupted, though, when his daughter (Selena Gomez) falls in love with a human (Andy Samberg).
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Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
The requests come at a fiscally unstable time for the district, which has had to make tens of millions of dollars worth of cuts in recent years to maintain local control.
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Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
19 Oct. 2025
Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
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Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Oct. 2025
But the holdup is the fact that, according to NBA insider Jake Fischer, Golden State does not want Malik Monk in return.
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Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
With training camp underway and the regular season opener coming up in less than a month, Kaprizov’s words Thursday might provide fans with hope that holdup is about economics and not environment.
Staged to look like a random mugging of a courier, the robbery was, in fact, a sophisticated heist that would ultimately involve the Provisional IRA, the New York mafia and the Colombian cartel.
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