stolen (from)

verb

Definition of stolen (from)next
past participle of steal (from)
as in robbed
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully little wonder that the store went out of business, as its employees had been stealing from it for years

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stolen (from)
  1. robbed
  2. knocked over
  3. ripped off
  4. sacked
  5. taken off
  6. knocked off
  7. looted
  8. plundered
Verb
  • 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, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of robbed
Verb
  • The Regional Parks Department said on social media that at least 10 light poles and several street signs were knocked over.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Thibodeaux then came over knocked over Jackson remained on the field but was replaced by Caedan Wallace on the next set of team drills.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of knocked over
Verb
  • Aviation experts were surprised that the plane did not crash after a descent so extreme that most of the rudder was ripped off the tail.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The original video Kalshi ripped off was about Choy moving into a new apartment in New York City and was originally uploaded in September of last year.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of ripped off
Verb
  • Throw out the Fresno State shutout, since that feels a bit like an aberration at this point, and the Trojans have only sacked the quarterback three times in their other four games.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Dak gets sacked on the latter, and Dallas has to settle for three.
    — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of sacked
Verb
  • While Microsoft maintains a dominant position in business software through Office, its flagship work AI product hasn’t taken off.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
  • But points must be taken off for thinking a lesbian nun would only have gotten laid as a layperson.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of taken off
Verb
  • Previously winless, Washington couldn’t run the ball or convert third downs against Seattle yet knocked off the defending Super Bowl champion anyway, behind backup quarterback Marcus Mariota’s three touchdowns and three Seahawks turnovers.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Huntington Beach knocked off Yorba Linda to go to 5-0 for the first time since 1998.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of knocked off
Verb
  • 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
Definition of looted
Verb
  • 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
  • The class-action deal covers relatives of people who donated bodies between January 2018 and March 2023, amid uncertainty over which cadavers Lodge plundered before cremation or return to families.
    — Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of plundered
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