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as in to invade
to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent
someone burgled the lab when no one was there and let the animals out of their cages
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as in to rob
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
the neighbors returned from vacation to find that their house had been burgled
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Your Friends and Neighbors Apple TV+, April 11 Literary bona fides: not an adaptation, but created by the novelist Jonathan Tropper
John Hamm stars as a rich guy who, having lost his job, decides to make ends meet by burgling from his neighbors.
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Emily Temple
march 28, Literary Hub, 28 Mar. 2025
A week prior to the burglary, one of the suspects was in contact with a man accused of acting as a middleman to sell luxury items burgled from wealthy homeowners, according to federal prosecutors.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2025
Four Chilean men were arrested in connection with the burglary of a string of multimillion-dollar homes, including one on the date Burrow’s home was burgled, though Burrow was not explicitly mentioned in the police report.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
Act Two relocates to the offices, looking ransacked after being burgled the night before.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Emily Temple
march 28, Literary Hub, 28 Mar. 2025
A week prior to the burglary, one of the suspects was in contact with a man accused of acting as a middleman to sell luxury items burgled from wealthy homeowners, according to federal prosecutors.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2025
Four Chilean men were arrested in connection with the burglary of a string of multimillion-dollar homes, including one on the date Burrow’s home was burgled, though Burrow was not explicitly mentioned in the police report.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
Act Two relocates to the offices, looking ransacked after being burgled the night before.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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What now is the difference between the United States attacking Venezuela in order to install new leadership and Russia invading Ukraine to effect annexation and leadership change?—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Jan. 2026
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The drug-trafficking-as-armed-attack line simply doesn’t work—not as a justification for bombing fishing boats in international waters in the Caribbean, and not for invading a foreign country and kidnapping its president.—
Elie Mystal,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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But Gallagher couldn’t bear robbing the audience — and Marissa — of the satisfaction of his downfall.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
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An 88-year-old Seattle woman was hospitalized with serious injuries after a man violently assaulted and robbed her, biting off her finger and stealing her jewelry, police say.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Burgle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burgle. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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