burglarize
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“Westwood was entirely sure it was people trying to seek out their houses to burglarize them,” said Neal, a documentary film editor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
“It just kept playing in my mind, ‘How can you burglarize this?’”
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
As thousands demonstrated in Washington this week to protest racial inequality and police brutality, scores of people used the civil unrest as a chaotic cover to burglarize businesses, according to police data and arrest records.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
“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
The Heads must win.—What puzzles me Is why in Hades there should be A Watch dog; 'tis, I should surmise, The last place one would burglarize.
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford
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
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
The woman first reported that her home — which is located in a remote area of Lovelock, north of Magalia — was burglarized on April 17.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
Beholden to paying clients, they were widely seen as surreptitious figures who burglarized people’s secrets.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Cloobeck’s former girlfriend, Lavie, was charged in March with burglarizing the homes of older wealthy men she met through dating apps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
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
Craig Koblitz, 62, a yacht repairman who lives across the street, said some neighbors had suspected him of burglarizing a nearby house a few years ago.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2018
The discovery that his unknown enemy after first firing the tannery had then rounded off a perfect evening by burglarizing his house threw Simon Varr into a state of mental confusion.
From The Monk of Hambleton by Armstrong Livingston
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