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Recent Examples of stick up
Verb
Ben Stiller stuck up for Adam Scott in a way he's never known.—Esther Kang, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025 After three year old Lucy Branson got a Polly Pocket doll shoe stuck up her nose, her family was charged about $2,659 for an ER doctor to fish it out with forceps — essentially a long pair of tweezers.—Elisabeth Rosenthal, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
Frank Moten was always of the mindset that Cadillac Richie did the robbery, but the real Cadillac Richie is a little bit different than our Cadillac Richie; the real Cadillac Richie was more of a stickup kid.—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024 Listen to this article A brazen robber who shot a wall during a Brooklyn store stickup was linked to the violent heist by the chunky diamond earrings adorning his earlobes, federal prosecutors allege.—John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stick up
The white sportscar is captured on video being towed away from the sight of the accident with the hood ripped off and bent to the side, revealing the guts of the automobile.
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Marc Griffin,
VIBE.com,
17 Mar. 2025
Well, we as a country have been ripped off for years and years, decades and decades.
Also last year, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that drones were believed to have been used in burglaries of beachside homes.
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James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Mar. 2025
The Associated Press reported this week that a second man, Michael Jones, has been convicted for his role in the burglary of the 215-pound gilded commode, which authorities have yet to recover.
Jones, 39, was found guilty of burglary in the Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday, according to the AP.
For decades, the terrorist group has plundered Gaza and sacrificed its people in pursuit of an unending messianic war to eliminate the Jewish state.
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Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2025
From [nautical] mile 200, the Argentine Navy [ …] under the coordination of the Joint Maritime Command, stands firm, patrolling and watching and ensuring that no foreign ship crosses our exclusive economic zone to plunder what belongs to Argentines.
Kevin Williams, 26, and Byron Wilson, 24, were part of a four-man break-in crew that snatched the jewelry from a store in Hartsdale, N.Y., federal investigators said Tuesday in a press release.
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Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
There was a break-in of a federal official’s home in that area.
That childhood dream has been shattered, much like the Centre, looted and destroyed.
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Omnia Saed,
ARTnews.com,
17 Mar. 2025
Then, one heir, niece Liesel Pritzker, who was excluded from that replacement deal, sued other family members in 2002, alleging that her trust funds were looted by family members, shortchanging her by $1 billion.
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