heist
Example Sentences
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A police spokesman likened the break-in to the Hollywood heist film Ocean's Eleven, telling AFP news agency it was "very professionally executed".
From BBC
The title seems particularly fitting for a lobster heist.
If the thieves who dropped Empress Eugenie’s crown outside the Louvre during this year’s heist, sparked an interest in jeweled headgear, try this encyclopedic guide to the world’s most famous tiaras.
Newly released state papers by the National Archives of Ireland, over 20 years later, reveal the privately held views of senior civil servants, politicians and public figures at the time of the heist.
From BBC
Investigators suspect Abdoulaye N., who was arrested six days after the heist, worked with a 37-year-old friend, whom police detained several days later.
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