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picklock

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Definition of picklock

as in burglar

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Noun

Those men include three burglars and four accomplices, per Le Monde.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2026
There’s a lot of other activities that happened between summer of ’71 and June of ’72, but the Watergate burglars, the Plumbers, are caught at the Watergate Hotel.

— Dustin DeSoto, Vox, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of burglar

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The first film, a box office hit, follows an explosive face-off between Los Angeles Police Department detective Lieutenant Vincent Hanna (Pacino) and professional thief Neil McCauley (De Niro).

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Nov. 2026
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

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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

Definition of robber

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To begin with, the community is run by Blaine Shaw (Seth Numrich), surely the slickest scammer of old folks since John Mahoney’s nursing-home embezzler in 1989’s Say Anything.

— Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026
Barb knowingly taking money from an embezzler would reshape our understanding of her as a character.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025

Definition of embezzler

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