Thesaurus results for LOOTED

looted

verb

past tense of loot

as in plundered

to search through with the intent of committing robbery the bandits looted the archaeological dig before riding off into the night

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Recent Examples of looted The inscriptions on the tablets at the Kuthodaw Pagoda were originally inlaid with gold, but the gold was looted during the British colonial period. —

Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026 The 2025 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, expands on a 2016 law, signed by President Barack Obama, that permits victims and descendants of victims of the Holocaust to lay legal claim to works of art looted by the Nazis or sold to the Nazis under false pretenses. —

Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026 All the State Forensic Authority’s DNA analysis labs were looted and destroyed in the fighting. —

Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026 The only time the family has been looted was in 2025, when a bear came into the yard and upturned the beehives. —

Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026 The Jewish family had hidden in Lyon during World War II, only to learn that their apartment had been looted and rented in their absence. —

Shannon Fogg, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026 Two people also reportedly broke into a storefront and looted merchandise during the event. —

Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026 Dan Hicks, a professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford who studied the FoI responses, told the Guardian that these collections included items looted by British colonial officials and soldiers. —

News Desk, Artforum, 18 Mar. 2026 YggTorrent has since confirmed the hacker looted sensitive data, including user passwords. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026

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But Klaasen didn’t hold back and shared an 80-run stand with Nitish Kumar Reddy, who made 21, and then Salil Arora (30 not out) plundered three sixes and two fours as Hyderabad notched its fifth straight win.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
Five years after the Halifax Resolves were adopted, the British army briefly occupied the town and plundered its homes, according to the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026