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rob

[rob] / rɒb /


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He demonstrated strength and awareness to rob Tunisia captain Ellyes Skhiri and set up a goal for strike partner Viktor Gyokeres in the second half.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

In the bottom of the inning, Eli White made a sprinting catch on the warning track in right field to rob Max Muncy of extra bases.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

“They enjoy the content. And I’m not going to rob baseball fans of great baseball entertainment just to solve a problem that only exists in the minds of x bots.”

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2026

“My deeper entry into the Getty world would rob me of my own hard-earned story,” the governor wrote in his recent memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

"Did Tariq Johnson rob the convenience store? Was it some kind of initiation?"

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Also, giving properties as gifts, rather than as inheritances, robs them of their tax-advantaged step-up in basis.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

Its inscrutability to ordinary people is part of what robs the document of whatever power it may have had at a third the length.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

“Change” exerted on another through force robs the receiving party of the dignity of authoring their own life path.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2026

Humorous responses to rage bait, which depends on eliciting defensiveness that can be fed back into the outrage machine, robs it of oxygen.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2025

I think losing a parent robs confidence from a kid.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

All of this is familiar from before, but robbed of the expressive capacity of animation it ends up feeling considerably more wooden.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Had the advent of intensive parenting robbed the holiday of its spark?

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

While he had no recollections of her, and said his adopted parents had been "brilliant", Barker felt robbed of memories of his biological mother.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

The Knicks winning the finals as fast as they did actually robbed the arena itself of a major spending event, a possibility that my colleagues Nate Wolf and Janet H. Cho pointed out last week.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

If he could just believe it was the man who had robbed him.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

All that fouling is hindering Brink’s development because it’s robbing her of important in-game reps — which she needs, foremost, to figure out how to stop fouling.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Now Spirit is gone, robbing us all of the airline likeliest to pester United, Delta, and American into lowering their prices more quickly once fuel prices go down.

From Slate May 12, 2026

With Itoje prowling the touchline, coach Steve Borthwick could not risk destabilising England's line-out - and robbing it of precious on-pitch leadership - by removing veteran hooker Jamie George.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2026

But you’d be robbing Peter to pay Paul.

From MarketWatch Nov. 8, 2025

The leaves were falling from the elms, robbing the street of shelter.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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