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as in to invade
to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent
the Watergate scandal began when Republican operatives burglarized the Democratic Party's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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as in to rob
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
before they were caught, the thieves had burglarized dozens of houses around the city
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Recent Examples of burglarize
Earlier in 2025, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's Los Angeles home was burglarized on Valentine's Day.
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Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The many charges stem from a Wednesday morning incident in the 5800 block of South Shields Avenue when several people attempted to burglarize a freight-train yard in the Englewood neighborhood.
—Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Lohan paid nearly $10,000 a month to rent the 2,700-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills in 2008; less than a year later, the place was burglarized and Lohan moved out.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 29 Aug. 2025
Chilean gangs burglarized homes in Amberley Village, Indian Hill, Anderson Township and Montgomery in Ohio as well as Cincinnati's Hyde Park neighborhood, all of which have median household incomes well above the state and national averages.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2025
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Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The many charges stem from a Wednesday morning incident in the 5800 block of South Shields Avenue when several people attempted to burglarize a freight-train yard in the Englewood neighborhood.
—Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Lohan paid nearly $10,000 a month to rent the 2,700-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills in 2008; less than a year later, the place was burglarized and Lohan moved out.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 29 Aug. 2025
Chilean gangs burglarized homes in Amberley Village, Indian Hill, Anderson Township and Montgomery in Ohio as well as Cincinnati's Hyde Park neighborhood, all of which have median household incomes well above the state and national averages.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2025
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On October 7, 2023, as a terrorist army invaded Israel intending to commit genocide against the Jewish people, many world leaders rightly condemned Hamas’ murder, rape, and slaughter of Israelis and foreign nationals.—
Ofir Akunis,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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Three years before the famed film was released, Wojtowicz and a friend held up a Brooklyn bank in a 14-hour hostage ordeal, allegedly robbing the bank to help pay for his transgender partner’s gender-affirming surgery.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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We’ve been truly robbed of many things throughout the 2020s.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Burglarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burglarize. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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