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Recent Examples of Synonyms for housebreakers
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Police said on Monday, the burglars targeted parked vehicles at an unspecified location on DuSable Lake Shore Drive near 57th Drive — close to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry and the 57th Street Beach.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026 -
Their reports explained regretfully that the confrontation had prevented two officers from receiving awards for shooting burglars.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The thieves got away on the CTA Red Line, but police were able to track the bear to the 35th Street station.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
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The thieves are still at large.—
Vanessa Yurkevich,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
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But as the crisis hurtles towards breaking point, the story rewinds, with viewers pulled inside the bank to relive the same events through the eyes of the robbers and their hostages.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
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Yet key dramatic moments—a shooting, the robbers’ realization that the bank vault is empty—occurred in a hallway invisible to the audience, described secondhand.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Their only hope is that more bubble teams lose, zero bid stealers lose, and maybe the committee even feels bad for leaving Darian DeVries out of the field last year, when DeVries’ West Virginia team was a shocking exclusion.—
Jim Root,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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But the real scene stealers are the massive gains (60% to 70%) in graphics performance, and the huge AI performance boost.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Housebreakers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housebreakers. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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