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breaking and entering

NOUN
unlawful entry
Synonyms
WEAK
break and entry break in burglarizing burglary housebreaking robbery second-story work

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Now, after breaking and entering the dwarfs’ home, Zegler doesn’t spend this iteration of “Whistle While You Work” tidying up with birds, squirrels and bunnies — she makes the men scrub their own damned floors.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

Squatting is legal is Australia, but laws prohibiting breaking and entering or trespass - remaining on private property when instructed to leave - still apply.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2024

Doubling of concepts is also common: null and void, breaking and entering, pain and suffering, legal and binding.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Kent Covington spent eight months in a North Carolina prison in 1974 for breaking and entering, and larceny, and later joined the church.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2018

For if the apprehended act did follow, then it is no longer necessary to allege that the breaking and entering was with that intent.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell