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Recent Examples of burgle The leak that began the revelation came when unknown persons burgled the headquarters of the Summa Corporation, which was owned by the Hughes Tool Company. David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025 He was incensed, mistakenly believing that the notepads had been burgled from his barn. Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 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 Grant told Barry his flat was burgled, microphones were put in his window boxes and dropped into his car, and medical records of him and the mothers of his children were stolen from NHS databases. Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for burgle
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  • Amid President Trump’s threats to start a global trade war, invade Greenland, seize control of the Panama Canal and annex Canada, this story has gone virtually unnoticed: Cuba is going through its worst economic crisis in decades — maybe since the 1959 revolution.
    Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
  • Longtime Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi forfeited his nation's budding nuclear program in exchange for better ties with the U.S. in 2003, the same year the U.S. invaded Iraq and toppled President Saddam Hussein over allegations of weapons of mass destruction.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
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  • He was robbed of an extra-base hit by Victor Scott II in center field and Nolan Arenado took away another hit.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
  • Lochte initially claimed he and his teammates were robbed at gunpoint, but it was determined those with the guns were actually security guards at a gas station where the swimmers had urinated outside a bathroom.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2025

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“Burgle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burgle. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.

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