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noun

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as in robbery

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verb

present participle of loot
as in plundering
to search through with the intent of committing robbery the bandits looted the archaeological dig before riding off into the night

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  1. robbery
  2. sacking
  3. plunder
  4. despoliation
Noun
  • Readers of the book, which is back in print (with a new title) after three decades off the shelves, will note the film’s fidelity to life, particularly in the robbery and heist scenes.
    Ali Winston, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The family lives on the northwest side of Milwaukee where burglaries, robberies and aggravated assaults have been climbing over the past three years, according to Milwaukee Police Department crime data.
    John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of robbery
Verb
  • Rebels have continuously celebrated their victory by robbing the Syrian Central Bank, sacking the Syrian presidential palace, and firing guns into the air.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Rebels have continuously celebrated their victory by robbing the Syrian Central Bank, sacking the Syrian presidential palace, and firing guns into the air.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of sacking
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  • Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.
    Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of plunder
Noun
  • For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
Definition of despoliation
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