as in to loot
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
in jail for robbing a bank
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Recent Examples of rob
Research shows that around 70% of executives select mentees of the same race or gender, which can rob organizations of the kind of perspectives needed to grow.
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Katya Laviolette, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Even as the stock market sails ahead largely undisturbed—prices did fall back a bit on Friday—the chaotic rollout of the tariffs has already dramatically heightened economic uncertainty and robbed the economy of some of the momentum that Trump inherited from the Biden Administration.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Beyoncé’s unreleased music may have fallen into the wrong hands as a vehicle was robbed before the Atlanta stop of her Cowboy Carter Tour.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 14 July 2025
Three years later, Armando Galarraga didn’t, robbed by a wrong call by first-base umpire Jim Joyce — who owned up to it almost immediately — in the days before instant replay.
—Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 11 July 2025
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Katya Laviolette, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Even as the stock market sails ahead largely undisturbed—prices did fall back a bit on Friday—the chaotic rollout of the tariffs has already dramatically heightened economic uncertainty and robbed the economy of some of the momentum that Trump inherited from the Biden Administration.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Beyoncé’s unreleased music may have fallen into the wrong hands as a vehicle was robbed before the Atlanta stop of her Cowboy Carter Tour.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 14 July 2025
Three years later, Armando Galarraga didn’t, robbed by a wrong call by first-base umpire Jim Joyce — who owned up to it almost immediately — in the days before instant replay.
—Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 11 July 2025
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In fact, the entire original Potlatch Club, once a 1960s and ‘70s hideaway for elites and celebrities — including Greta Garbo, Cliff Robertson and Richard Widmark — had been swallowed up by nature, looted, lashed by hurricane winds and long forgotten.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
9 July 2025
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Stores in downtown Los Angeles were broken into and looted, and some of the downtown area was vandalized with anti-ICE and anti-Trump graffiti.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
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This is the first time a studio has put tickets for sale this early in advance, but considering Nolan has a loyal army of fans large enough to sack a city, there certainly won’t be any shortage of uptake.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Red Bull driver Max Verstappen backed former boss Christian Horner before he got sacked by the higher-ups at the racing team.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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The two men, who are both 28-year-old residents of Oakland, were burglarizing a vehicle shortly after 3:30 a.m. May 2 in San Jose when an adult man confronted them, according to a news release from the San Jose Police Department.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
9 July 2025
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The robbery follows a rash of home robberies seemingly targeting professional athletes WWE star couple Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins’ California residence was burglarized Tuesday morning, with around $10,000 in cash reported missing.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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Although the passengers managed to swim or be hauled on ropes to shore, much of the ship’s cargo—which included tea, brandy, nails, iron, and Wright’s paintings—was lost, washed out of the ship’s hold and either plundered by a passing privateer and people living nearby or sunk below the waves.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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The British Museum has many artifacts in its collection which were plundered during imperial and colonial eras, and are contested.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
11 July 2025
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Given that many forms of manufacturing are labor-intensive, any country where the cost of labor is lower than the cost in the U.S. can exploit such an opportunity.—
Sheldon H. Jacobson,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
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Lunn promised to provide low-cost necessities—groceries, coal, and ice for the pre-electric era iceboxes—by starting city-run businesses to compete with private merchants who exploited their poor customers.—
Time,
Time,
22 July 2025
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The city has to strip the boxes of the black paint and once they are cleaned up the Girl Scouts can try again.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 July 2025
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Trees sturdy enough to survive the catastrophe were stripped to a pale almond-colored nude.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
15 July 2025
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Business Technology News #5 – Here are 10 ways to use Grok 4 that feel like cheating: AI resources platform God of Prompt listed 10 creative ways to use Grok 4 – xAI’s large language model – on its X feed.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
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What People Are Saying Byron's wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, removed her last name from her Facebook account and later deleted it following the cheating allegations, Page Six reported.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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The local Chinese restaurant and the local corner shop have also been burgled.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 June 2025
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Your Friends and Neighbors Apple TV+, April 11 Literary bona fides: not an adaptation, but created by the novelist Jonathan Tropper John Hamm stars as a rich guy who, having lost his job, decides to make ends meet by burgling from his neighbors.—
Emily Temple
March 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Rob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rob. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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