Thesaurus results for BURGLARS

burglars

noun

plural of burglar

as in thieves

a person who illegally enters a building in order to steal things; a person who commits burglary The burglar had broken into several homes in the neighborhood.

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Recent Examples of burglars After making off with the paintings, initial reports of the robbery came from local passersby who saw the fleeing burglars—not the museum’s workers. — News Desk, Artforum, 17 Aug. 2026 The would-be burglars targeted a home in Pasadena, California. — Abigail Velez, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 In late March, a gang used a tractor to batter down a fence before two masked burglars broke into the Magnani Rocca Foundation, a private museum about 12 miles from the northern Italian city of Parma. — Willem Marx, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026 Police on Friday released a video of the theft, showing two masked burglars entering through a window, grabbing the three paintings off the wall, and then immediately exiting the building. — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 On June 19 burglars used a saw to cut through a garage door on Avalon Heights Terrace, and smashed through a sliding glass window to get into the home. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026 The New Evidence also devotes time to the defense theory that Laci encountered the burglars who robbed the home of across-the-street neighbors Rudy and Susan Medina. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 18 July 2026 Peterson's attorneys argued that Laci could have interrupted the robbery in progress and was then abducted and killed by the burglars. — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026 The body lay unsecured for more than 10 hours while burglars twice picked through the dead man’s room. — Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

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For more than a week, there wasn’t much news or fanfare that thieves stole more than 40,000 pounds of Milwaukee-founded Pabst Blue Ribbon, or PBR, beer from a Montclair distribution center.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
In September 2025, thieves snatched three porcelain works worth millions of dollars and classed as national treasures in a heist at the Adrien Dubouche National Museum in Limoges in central France.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

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Preliminary explorations indicate these burials were looted in antiquity; passages linking them are thought to have been made by ancient robbers moving between the tombs.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026
The robbers have ordered the victims to unlock their cellphones, and have fled on foot after taking the phones.

— Dylan Olsen, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026

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