burglarize
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“It just kept playing in my mind, ‘How can you burglarize this?’”
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
In another development, someone this week apparently tried to burglarize the hospital mortuary where Kim’s body is awaiting positive identification.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
“Eric Rivera Jr. would not have been in that car on the way to burglarize Sean Taylor’s house that night if he was a really good football player,” Dorsey said in a phone interview.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 29, 2014
This year, she leads a particularly strong Un Certain Regard sidebar with "The Bling Ring," a film about star-worshipping California teenagers who burglarize celebrity homes.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2013
The point is that by this time Daniel Crowley has, ah, infiltrated the institution you expected to burglarize tonight.
From The Common Man by George Luther Schelling
The horror thriller, about a valet who burglarizes the houses of his rich customers, earned a B-minus rating on CinemaScore and a 56% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2018
Sielsch drove to a home that had been burglarized by a bear to install an electric mat on the back porch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He also investigates stolen tractors and off-road vehicles, burglarized deer camps, and financial crimes, like a $2 million case that involved a man who took out bank loans on cows he didn’t own.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Pitt, who owns several properties across the globe, is understood to have been away from the dwelling when it was burglarized on the evening of June 25.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2025
Ware said three public elementary schools in the upscale suburb of San Rafael were burglarized: Lucas Valley, Mary Silveira and Venetia Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
It isn’t merely coincidental or surprising, as when the newscaster thoughtlessly reports, “Ironically, the jewelry store was burglarized on the same date last year.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Bass and other elected officials in Los Angeles have repeatedly asked protesters to remain nonviolent and refrain from spray-painting graffiti or otherwise vandalizing or burglarizing businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
Brill said homeless encampments had grown out of control in the area during the pandemic, with people suffering from mental illness living in squalor and regularly burglarizing nearby properties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2021
Although Watergate had some foreign policy origins — the “plumbers” started out burglarizing Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in response to the Pentagon Papers — it was an overwhelmingly domestic affair with a narrow focus.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2017
A single count of burglarizing a home carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years, but Ms. Maloney said Maine courts rarely imposed the maximum when no one was assaulted.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2013
Yet, as this young gentleman said, we can not submit to the burglarizing of the house of our society.
From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough