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sticking up

verb

present participle of stick up

as in ripping off

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And yet scores of interlopers have dropped by the page in order to try and score a miracle — or even have more nefarious plans of ripping off cinephiles.

— William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2026
Even David Ben-Gurion was more concerned with ripping off as much land as possible.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026

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Buckingham asked, holding up a bag of prescription medications.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
Several Argentinian players, including Giovani Lo Celso, Lisandro Martínez and Nicolas Otamendi, were seen holding up the banner before laying it down face up on the Mercedes-Benz Stadium pitch.

— Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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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, ABC News, 17 July 2026

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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

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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

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In 1982, invading Israeli forces occupied the city, withdrawing three years later.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
And, on the other other hand, warmer winters could accelerate the northward spread of pine processionary caterpillars, which are already invading southern Germany.

— Ben Crair, New Yorker, 31 July 2026

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