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 In addition to being robbed of what Toro said was thousands of dollars, Toro said her children are now in therapy after witnessing the shooting. — Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026 Padres center fielder Jase Bowen robbed Perdomo of a home run to end the eighth and then stole one from Tim Tawa to end the ninth. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026 The homes of basketball pros Sabrina Ionescu of the New York Liberty and Karl-Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks were robbed in 2025. — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2026 It’s been 14 years since that mugging, and I haven’t been robbed since, despite traveling to more than 60 countries and moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2026 In a precursor to the crime that would take Andrew’s life, in 1891, the Borden house was robbed in the middle of the day. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026 When police responded to the scene of the third robbery, they were approached by two additional victims, both 43-year-old men, who said they too had been robbed of their phones at that location, cops said. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026 The nightmare 2019 Fiesta Bowl Winning the national championship in 2024 didn’t quiet a part of the Ohio State fan base that still believes it was robbed in the 2019 Fiesta Bowl loss to Clemson. — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 In public, this increases a person’s risk of being robbed or assaulted. — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026

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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
Chicago police are investigating after more than two dozen vehicles were burglarized on the city's South Side early Saturday morning.

— Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of burglarized

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One of the Buddhas was looted more than 100 years ago from the Tianlongshan Grottoes, a temple complex in Shanxi Province.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Last year, the museum returned fragments of a silk manuscript from China that dated to more than 2,000 years ago and had been looted from a tomb.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

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Von Miller has not just defied his age but seemingly ignored it, and for a long time sacked it.

— Mac Engel October 6, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2026
Patrick Mahomes was sacked just twice Sunday during the Chiefs’ 30-27 win over the Raiders, but the official stats show Las Vegas had eight quarterback hits.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026

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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
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

Definition of plundered

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With the sentence stripped down to subject, moment and outcome, teams can go looking in places that have nothing to do with their product.

— Duncan Wardle, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Councilmember Joe Zamora, who had served as the city’s mayor, was stripped of that title at Tuesday’s City Council meeting — a move multiple sources told The Times was allegedly motivated, at least in part, by his support for Valladares.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of stripped

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OpenAI reported that the agents used unauthorized communication channels, exploited vulnerabilities and engaged in reward hacking.

— Babajide Ojuola, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Rogers’ indiscretion was later exploited by online blackmail scammers, ultimately leading to his downfall.

— Eamon Javers, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

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