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 In May of this year, the Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation (CIVS), which determines if artworks were Nazi-looted, failed to reach a definitive conclusion. — News Desk, Artforum, 30 June 2026 Though it had been looted by kids, most of the material was eventually recovered. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 The Benin Bronzes refer to the approximately 5,000 bronze sculptures, ceremonial objects, and ivory carvings looted by British forces from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, during the 1897 punitive expedition. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026 Nearly all of Cambodia's 4,000 temples have been looted. — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 28 June 2026 Some have been looted, burned, and abandoned, while others face critical shortages of supplies, medicines, or staff. — Tirana Hassan, Time, 26 June 2026 The sandstone artifact, which depicts the Hindu epic character Duryodhana, had in fact been looted from Koh Ker in or around 1972, after the all-important UNESCO convention. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026 Rioters again attacked police with rocks, bottles and other objects, and looted and burned local buildings. — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026 The mob burned and looted Shepherd’s home while attacking surrounding homes and businesses. — Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026

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The Stuttgart striker plundered two second-half goals, including a stoppage-time winner, to earn his side a place in the last 32.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 June 2026
Which were left to be plundered and destroyed?

— Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026

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But Nolan also throws a meditative new wrinkle into the story, as Odysseus comes to grips with his role in the Trojan War, leading the charge as his men raped, murdered and pillaged in his name.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 July 2026
For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 June 2026

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Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided an election hub in Fulton County at the beginning of the year, seizing hundreds of boxes of ballots and tally sheets from election workers.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Subpoenas were issued June 8, the same day FBI agents raided both men’s houses and the assessor’s office.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

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One looks to the story of the Haitian World Cup team, appearing in the tournament for the first time in fifty years, which has gathered expatriate players from the Haitian diaspora to play for that beautiful and utterly despoiled country, where many of them have never lived.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
In the 21st century, oil extraction has become a serious threat to Ecuadoran Amazonia, with large swaths of forest, often located in Indigenous territories, despoiled by the release of wastewater from the wells.

— Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of despoiled

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Royal forces ransacked every ship that arrived at Alexandria, searching for scrolls.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Some people climbed a lifeguard tower, while others ran through traffic and ransacked stalls where artisans sold their goods, police said at the time.

— Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 7 July 2026

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