Thesaurus results for ROB

rob

verb

ˈräb

Definition of rob

as in to loot

to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully in jail for robbing a bank

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Recent Examples of rob Sal Frelick robbed Freddie Freeman of a double with a nice running catch in the right center field gap, but an error on a pickoff attempt at first base brought Edman in to score. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 French police investigating the theft of two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from a museum on the French Riviera believe the suspects were preparing to rob another institution, the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, prosecutors said Monday. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 To her, romance and courtship isn’t just ambient but invasive, robbing her of friends — both in the sense that men can’t seem to leave things platonic, while women either mock her or shun her in favor of a new date. — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 Online videos of past GTA versions show players gunning down police, robbing a liquor store and getting lap dances from topless strippers. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rob

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Verb

The interior ministry reported assaults on police, looting and damage to public buildings, saying there have been at least 272 arrests nationwide.

— Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
The young people set fire to electric hire bikes and looted at least one shop, a CNN producer on the ground witnessed.

— Elina Baudier Kim, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of loot

Verb

After Miami scored in the second OT period, Omar Thornton sacked Daniels on first down, forced an incompletion on second down, got FSU to commit a false start and forced another incompletion to set up fourth and 21.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026
He was sacked five times as Texas lost consecutive regular-season games for the first time since 2021.

— Mark Long, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of sack

Verb

Staff at an Albany Park coffee shop planned to celebrate their first anniversary over the weekend, but they were burglarized the same day.

— Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Connor headed inside to relax for the first time in months, only to find that the property had been burglarized.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of burglarize

Verb

As noted recently by Deadline, other Chinese AI models continue to plunder IP, including MiniMax H3, which generated videos that violated studio brand safety standards 55% of the time when an image was used in a prompt.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
But there is very little archaeological evidence available, given that many of the earliest Egyptian tombs were plundered and/or hastily excavated.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of plunder

Verb

Now, in yet another blow to national self-esteem, the ex-head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, has been arrested on charges of exploiting state secrets.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 17 Oct. 2026
Major cringe, on the other hand, navigates the aesthetic affect critically and formally to induce it—viscerally exploiting its possibilities.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of exploit

Verb

Despite Ukraine's pause, officials in Kyiv said the country has been stripped of advance warnings of incoming ballistic missiles, as Starlink connectivity services had been restricted across the country, disrupting military operations.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Many of those stripped from the electoral rolls are appealing their removal—an often laborious process—but the possibility of mass disenfranchisement is real.

— Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of strip

Verb

For example, if a model figures out a way to cheat to win a game, but the human running the training doesn’t spot the cheating, then the model will learn to cheat.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The move, orchestrated by Everett to satisfy the demands of the company’s top-dollar backers, cheats Michael out of his stock options and equity in the company.

— Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of cheat

Verb

Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s mansion was nearly burgled.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
The Stathe stars as a car dealer with a criminal past whose girlfriend (Saffron Burrows) presents him with an opportunity to burgle the safe deposit boxes of the wealthy clients of a Lloyds Bank branch on London’s Baker Street.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of burgle

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