burglarize
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Another resident, Andrés Calderón, 40, said several people in the neighborhood hadn’t wanted to leave their homes, fearing that thieves would burglarize them.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
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
If I had for one instant imagined you cared enough about it to burglarize my rooms ...
From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph
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
Unluckily for McCoy, the home that had been burglarized was located on a street where he regularly rode his bicycle in a loop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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
“Neighbors are being burglarized quite often. For the streets to be this dark is even more of a danger,” Sicilia said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 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
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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In May, seven Colombian nationals were arrested on suspicion of burglarizing homes in Burbank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
“We have people who will go to all ends to do what they do,” Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said of a man dressed in a fire jacket and helmet burglarizing homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2025
It's as if G. Gordon Liddy kept burglarizing various Democratic offices after the Watergate break-in, but the reporting on his later crimes failed to mention the first one.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2020
The Tooth Fairy is a burglarizing fetishist specializing in black-market ivory trade, and she must be stopped.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2011
So Stumpy roamed through yard, kitchen, and stable, stalking over bleaching sheets, burglarizing the garden gate, and grazing wherever he chose.
From Tom Grogan by Smith, Francis Hopkinson