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The four men were sought in connection to a pharmacy robbery in Maryland Heights, Mo., around 1:15 a.m. that morning.—
Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
12 Aug. 2025 -
Well, police investigating a warehouse robbery recovered thousands of dollars worth of Labubus, the popular toy that has taken the internet by storm, Chino, California, officials said in a news release.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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Both the single-player and multiplayer modes allowed players to pilot ships and explore 48 star systems while engaging in trading, piracy, and other activities (a favorite of ours was bounty-hunting).—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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However, the company has long been hostile to any piracy, including of old Nintendo games.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 July 2025
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Reparations, long proposed as the only measure proportionate to the scale of racial plunder, look increasingly like a political, economic, and legal non-starter.—
Idrees Kahloon,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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California was also a land of plunder, a place where rampant capitalism had merged with unrealistic fantasy.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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“Privateering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateering. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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