burglarize
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“It just kept playing in my mind, ‘How can you burglarize this?’”
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
While Dr. Dre was undergoing treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for a possible brain aneurysm Tuesday night, four men were arrested after they allegedly tried to burglarize the music mogul’s Brentwood mansion, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 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
Tolbert says he believes that “will have an effect on those who burglarize homes in Flint.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 11, 2015
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
Pitt is one of the latest celebrities to see their home burglarized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
“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
And in January, police arrested a man suspected of burglarizing Drake’s Beverly Hills home.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2023
Although the men on trial admitted to burglarizing the museum, they refused to admit significant aspects of the crime — such as planning and leadership — blaming unknown accomplices instead.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
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
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
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