Thesaurus results for ROBBING

robbing

verb

present participle of rob

as in burglarizing

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

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Recent Examples of robbing Before that, he had been convicted assaulting someone at a Berlin high school in 2019, as well as robbing someone of a pair of headphones nearly a year later. — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 26 July 2026 The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives they were supposed to lead. — ABC News, 17 July 2026 Bob Pilletto Best, 59, was indicted by a federal grand jury April 1, 2025, for robbing the First Arkansas Bank & Trust. — Arkansas Online, 17 July 2026 Eight of the 10 suspects were convicted of robbing the star of millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry in May 2025. — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026 The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for public assistance in identifying a man, who is accused of robbing a bank in Miami Lakes. — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 In an interview with Federal Bureau of Investigations agents, Young allegedly initially denied involvement in the robbery but later admitted to robbing the bank, the criminal complaint said. — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026 More than a thousand people across Europe are dead, often as a result of the fact that nighttime temperatures stayed high, robbing bodies of the chance to cope. — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 9 July 2026 The race ended under a safety car, though, robbing fans of a sprint to the end. — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 5 July 2026

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Prior to stealing the Ford, Chaucanes Vasquez is accused of burglarizing another vehicle and stealing an iPhone charger, the sheriff’s office said.

— Sofia Saric June 14, Miami Herald, 14 June 2026
In December 2025, Kenon was sentenced to 94 days in jail by a judge in Osceola County for burglarizing a building and felony grand theft in the third degree.

— James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026

Definition of burglarizing

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When a group of participants began looting, violence erupted as police attacked with tear gas and shot and killed a 16 year-old amid hundreds of arrests.

— Laura French, TheWeek, 28 July 2026
Brisas de Maiquetía has not been spared from looting, a problem affecting all of La Guaira.

— Julimar Valentina Rivas Perez, NBC news, 24 July 2026

Definition of looting

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In vivid strokes of saffron orange and seafoam green watercolors, Wilson rendered a vibrant portrait of herself plundering birthday cake by the handful as party guests languished around the frame.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 26 July 2026
Historians theorize that, among several other factors, these sea peoples plundering the Mediterranean helped usher in a Dark Age where the ability to read and write was lost in Ancient Greece.

— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026

Definition of plundering

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The museum replaced him with Sasha Suda, hiring her away from the National Gallery of Canada before sacking her following a disastrous rebrand and replacing her with Weiss, a former president of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

— News Desk, Artforum, 29 July 2026
But so far, the government has decided not to intervene by sacking him and has backpedalled, allowing Russia to participate.

— Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 July 2026

Definition of sacking

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Desertification is the severe degradation of fertile drylands into unproductive, desert-like terrain, stripping the soil of its vegetation, nutrients, and agricultural capability.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
The league reprimanded the Aces for impermissible player benefits in 2023, docking Las Vegas a 2025 first-round draft pick, so stripping more draft capital as a punishment would not have been unprecedented.

— Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 26 July 2026

Definition of stripping

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Most real-world cybercrime still relies on easier and cheaper methods, such as exploiting software vulnerabilities, stealing credentials, phishing, malware and ransomware.

— Chetan Jaiswal, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Proofpoint and the National Security Agency jointly warned last week that the group, also tracked as Laundry Bear and Void Blizzard, had been carrying out similar attacks by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in an email service from Zimbra.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2026

Definition of exploiting

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The rumors of cheating with addresses and recruiting players have run rampant, but many schools do it.

— Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2026
The story of a cheating husband's double life racked up more than 23 million views in its first month, reaching the top ten in 62 countries, including the US, and the number one spot in almost two dozen countries.

— Kate Bartlett, NPR, 24 July 2026

Definition of cheating

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