robbed

past tense of rob

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of robbed To make matters worse, this isn't the first time the band has been robbed. — Renee Anderson, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked down, beaten, and robbed of her camera equipment by masked settlers in an attack captured on video by other journalists. — Cameron Peters, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026 But by and large, audiences were exposed to the horrors of a woman robbed of control over her own mind and body. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 Three teenage boys were charged after a 15-year-old boy with autism was beaten and robbed near a train station in Australia in a violent attack captured on video as other teenagers watched. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The victim told deputies that two men threatened the victim with a firearm, robbed the victim and fled. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026 In written reports, customers compared the ordeal to being robbed, held hostage or physically assaulted. — Monika Evstatieva, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026 The Guardians had a runner on first with one out in the third when second baseman Ben Williamson robbed DeLauter of a hit that prevented a first-and-third jam. — Rob Maaddi, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 What about the impact on other clubs and fans, who were potentially robbed of titles, trophies, money, parades, memories? — Matt Piper, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for robbed
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
Verb
  • Shopkeepers boarded up windows while others opened temporarily and endured a nervous Saturday afternoon, after around 3,000 shops were damaged or looted last weekend.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Some 3,000 shops across France were damaged or looted over the weekend.
    — Richard Engel, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Craig overcame being sacked four times and the run game producing just 33 yards to lead TCU to the massive victory, as the Horned Frogs scored multiple touchdowns against a Power Four conference opponent for the first time this season.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Much worse, the Commanders were in field goal range, and they somehow got sacked.
    — David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Social media posts and merchant reports said luxury and beauty stores, including Sephora, Celine, Burberry and Louis Vuitton, were plundered.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 19 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
Verb
  • The Montaukett, the original inhabitants of the Hamptons, were stripped of their land and tribal rights a century ago.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Recent wildfires have stripped vegetation from nearby hillsides, leaving the ground more vulnerable to mudslides.
    — Brittney Ermon, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • This notorious commercial entity, a precursor of the global corporations of today and big enough to command its own army, ruthlessly exploited foreign resources, human and material.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • That signal can be aggregated, correlated, and exploited by hostile foreign intelligence services to anticipate our movements, targets, and timing.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • But the idea that girls are being cheated is personal for some athletes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Miller—who is no stranger to extramarital tabloid scandals herself—has also mastered her getting-cheated-on performances.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 24 Oct. 2026

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“Robbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/robbed. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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