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Definition of stick up

as in to rob

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Verb

One can stick up for female athletes and defend female sports without singling out and effectively mass cyberbullying a high school athlete. — Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 31 May 2026 On the evening of May 1, 1978, Cox was thrown out for, essentially, sticking up for the scoreboard operator. — Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 20 May 2026

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Man gets 5 years in Cedar Lake robbery A Gary man got 5 years in a plea deal earlier this month for a Cedar Lake stickup. — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025 The stickup comes amid a nearly 23% drop in robberies in the Bronx’s 44th Precinct, which saw 135 robberies as of April 27 compared to 175 in the same time period last year, according to NYPD statistics. — John Annese, New York Daily News, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for stick up

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After injuries derailed her promising elite career and the sport’s abusive culture robbed her of her joy, Ohashi reached superstar status while rediscovering her love of the sport with UCLA.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 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

Definition of rob

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According to the warrant affidavit, the woman alleged that Gonzalez then forced her down onto the bed and ripped off her pajama pants and underwear before touching her and forcing her to perform oral sex on him.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
The small pockets of Egyptian fans in the stadium went absolutely berserk, jumping and ripping off their shirts as their team went bonkers below them.

— Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026

Definition of rip off

Noun

He was arrested on suspicion of burglary and booked into Santa Clara County jail.

— Jason Green, Mercury News, 10 July 2026
Three Bay Area men are facing charges in the May burglary of a cannabis facility that led to a fatal shooting by a security guard, Sacramento police announced Thursday.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of burglary

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The Royals didn’t hold up their end of the bargain, however, falling 6-1 to the Philadelphia Phillies in the series opener.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026
That enabled Atlas to run through the same actions millions of times in parallel across cloud GPUs, learning to adapt to imperfect conditions until the behavior held up reliably.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 5 July 2026

Definition of hold up

Noun

Four people, including a police sergeant, are dead after being shot during a late-night break-in at a northern Ohio home on Sunday, July 5, law enforcement said.

— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 6 July 2026
An older festival trailer starring Gibson features the star interrupting a break-in, while Garcia also learns about break-ins in his short film.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026

Definition of break-in

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