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footpads

noun

plural of footpad

as in highwaymen

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Attacks by bandits are common across northern Nigeria where armed groups carry out attacks against civilian populations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
Attacks by bandits are common across northern Nigeria, where armed groups carry out attacks against civilian populations.

— Dyepkazah Shibayan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

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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

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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

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Maritime security experts aren’t sure where the pirates are getting their funding.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
Alas, Medak also is famous for directing the lamentable Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974), a comedy about bumbling 17th century pirates that starred the combustible Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of pirates

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But none of those tactics have fully contained the invasive pinchers.

— Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Subcategories of the pincer style are the mini oven mitts, which stop at the wrist rather than covering the forearm, and pot pinchers, which can be used as oven mitts in a, well, pinch.

— Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 June 2026

Definition of pinchers

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