burglars

noun

plural of burglar
as in thieves
a person who illegally enters a building in order to steal things; a person who commits burglary The burglar had broken into several homes in the neighborhood.

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Recent Examples of burglars There’s a lot of other activities that happened between summer of ’71 and June of ’72, but the Watergate burglars, the Plumbers, are caught at the Watergate Hotel. — Dustin Desoto, Vox, 30 Oct. 2026 Last October, burglars made off with roughly $100 million in jewels from the Louvre in a daring daylight robbery. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2026 Video footage from inside Kala Greek showed one of the burglars kicking the glass to break in. — Tara Molina, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 This time, burglars stole gold and silver coins worth more than $100,000. — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burglars
  1. thieves
  2. robbers
Noun
  • Just after the illustration of the Devil is a collection of three spells to cure disease and fever and two magic formulas for catching thieves.
    — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The answer lies in a complex game of cat and mouse between carmakers, thieves and technology.
    — Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of thieves
Noun
  • Romero retired from the NYPD as a detective in 2001, a year after he was shot while off duty by armed robbers at his family-run laundromat in Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told ABC New York City station WABC.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The series opens from the police perspective, but later the story rewinds and is told through the eyes of the robbers and and their hostages inside the bank.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of robbers

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