Thesaurus results for ROBBED

robbed

verb

past tense of rob

as in burglarized

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

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Recent Examples of robbed Daily life on death row nearly robbed him of his sanity, Duncan said. — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 31 Aug. 2026 In October 2025, jewelry worth $102 million was robbed from the Louvre in Paris. — News Desk, Artforum, 28 Aug. 2026 Named after Blythe Street — a short thoroughfare flanked by overcrowded apartments — the crew had robbed, stole, peddled drugs and shot up rivals since the 1980s, seemingly untroubled by the city of Los Angeles’ attempts to defeat it. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 At the same time, an elderly woman approached the officers and told them the trio had just robbed her of a gold chain necklace. — Jason Green, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026 Two others, including the woman who spoke with CBS News New York, were robbed of their valuables. — Allen Devlin, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 By naming Watson the starter, the Browns robbed their city of that. — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Three young people were shot — including a teen who died a day later — during a wild Bronx car meetup that ended in dozens of bullets fired after two women were robbed, police said Monday. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026 Owen is bamboozled by a cunning opportunist, handcuffed, and robbed in his underwear. — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

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Verb

This isn’t the first time one of Brady’s CardVault locations has been burglarized.

— Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
Deputies responded to several locations in northeast Miami-Dade where Honda vehicles had been burglarized and their driver-side airbags removed.

— Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of burglarized

Verb

Authorities are still investigating whether any of them may also have been looted during World War II.

— Sergio Farella, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Preliminary explorations indicate these burials were looted in antiquity; passages linking them are thought to have been made by ancient robbers moving between the tombs.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of looted

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After a shock loss to the Arizona Cardinals, in which Herbert had one touchdown, one interception and was sacked three times, the QB dropped from third in the odds to out of the top 10.

— Hannah Vanbiber, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
In Nix’s four previous starts against the Chiefs, he was sacked a total of five times.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of sacked

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In the sixties, artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Peter Saul had plundered lowbrow visual culture for elemental materials.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
The class-action deal covers relatives of people who donated bodies between January 2018 and March 2023, amid uncertainty over which cadavers Lodge plundered before cremation or return to families.

— Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of plundered

Verb

That imbalance, if exploited with sufficient force, would produce concessions on trade flows, investment, and the rules governing global competition.

— JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Defensively, Chelsea ruthlessly exploited loose marking and errors, and the scoreline could have been even more painful without some fine saves by goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce.

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of exploited

Verb

The producers’ suit appeared to sputter out in 2022, when a judge ruled that they were not cheated out of profits and that AMC had sued a standard definition.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
The Times has interviewed more than a dozen clients and investors who said they were cheated by Holdo.

— Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of cheated

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