Thesaurus results for ROBBED

robbed

verb

past tense of rob

as in burglarized

to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully in jail for robbing a bank

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Recent Examples of robbed In October 2025, jewelry worth $102 million was robbed from the Louvre in Paris. — News Desk, Artforum, 28 Aug. 2026 Named after Blythe Street — a short thoroughfare flanked by overcrowded apartments — the crew had robbed, stole, peddled drugs and shot up rivals since the 1980s, seemingly untroubled by the city of Los Angeles’ attempts to defeat it. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 At the same time, an elderly woman approached the officers and told them the trio had just robbed her of a gold chain necklace. — Jason Green, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026 Two others, including the woman who spoke with CBS News New York, were robbed of their valuables. — Allen Devlin, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 By naming Watson the starter, the Browns robbed their city of that. — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Three young people were shot — including a teen who died a day later — during a wild Bronx car meetup that ended in dozens of bullets fired after two women were robbed, police said Monday. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026 Owen is bamboozled by a cunning opportunist, handcuffed, and robbed in his underwear. — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026 Though he’s never been drugged with scopolamine, he was sedated with benzodiazepines and robbed several years ago, and has devoted much of his channel to warning tourists about the risks. — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026

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Verb

This isn’t the first time one of Brady’s CardVault locations has been burglarized.

— Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
Deputies responded to several locations in northeast Miami-Dade where Honda vehicles had been burglarized and their driver-side airbags removed.

— Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of burglarized

Verb

Police say the home was looted of items that included artwork, jewelry, electronics and business documents.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
Russian forces have routinely looted Ukrainian cultural objects during the course of the war, which has been going on for over four years.

— News Desk, Artforum, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of looted

Verb

Come the end of the season, Frank had been sacked and Tottenham only just stayed up.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The Jayhawks trailed by six and got the ball at their 11 with 17 seconds left, but Missouri sealed the 36-28 victory with a safety when Lorenzo Williams sacked Reesing in the end zone.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of sacked

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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
There is depth and detail that can be navigated and known, probed and plundered for rewards — and the best way to do all of that is with a manual telescope.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of plundered

Verb

After Winston completed a 15-yard pass to Braxton Berrios, McCrary-Ball stripped the receiver, and Stiggers recovered the fumble in the end zone for a touchback.

— Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 29 Aug. 2026
The building went through an even bigger transformation in 2018, when the interior was stripped down to the studs and completely remodeled, Lange said.

— Evan Moore August 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of stripped

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Three more defendants have been sentenced to a total of 155 months in prison for their role in the Feeding Our Future Fraud scheme–the $250 MILLION scheme that exploited a program intended to feed thousands of children in Minnesota.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026
Early on July 11, agent 38148c found and exploited a zero-day in the Hugging Face handling of HDF5 files.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of exploited

Verb

The rest of us just got the surface, but who could feel cheated?

— Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Child safety advocates and some parents have welcomed age restrictions, while privacy groups say the rules can be cheated and that forcing users to supply identification raises privacy concerns.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of cheated

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