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Without her example, would Taylor Swift have stood up to the hedge funds who bought her back catalogue, re-recording her biggest hits to rob them of royalties?

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

A World Cup without European teams would rob it of three out of four semi-finalists from this summer's competition and six of the eight quarter-finalists.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

“This groundwater mining proposal would drain the desert and rob the Mojave of its rare springs and wildlife habitat,” said Chance Wilcox, California desert associate director of the National Parks Conservation Assn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

He went on to urge graduates not to let fear rob them of personal agency—a fine, saccharine message.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

They bargained for a while and then the young woman shouted, “If you want to rob people, then do so. Don’t say you are selling garri for that price.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When Howl loses himself to a beastly form after attacking opposing forces in the war into which he’s drawn, it’s an allegory about how armed conflict robs us of our humanity.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

But the absence of warmth in the performance robs the denouement of a portion of its awful pathos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

The loaded narrative robs the picture of more time with Gary and Pawbert, even if Bush finds plot-effective ways to feature the supporting mammals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

“Because,” Natalie said, “it looks like every single one of these bills is either a one or a five. If someone robs a bank, they take twenties, at least. Probably even fifties or hundreds.”

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

But now, authorities have officially exonerated him — acknowledging his innocence in the 1998 Fullerton heist that robbed him of nearly two decades of his life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

He became a suspect after a clerk at a dry cleaners that had been robbed saw Brambles at a motel and called police.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

They agreed that being exactly right all of the time wasn’t worth the misery of waiting so long to witness a goal—and then being robbed of that moment of ecstasy when it gets overturned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

She held so much under her control, and I was sure the days since her Rocky was plundered, since her lineage was robbed, had demanded nothing less.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Data-center titans buy huge amounts of memory at higher prices, robbing Apple of its leverage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

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

If that happened, you would be robbing yourself of future returns.

From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026

“It’s very old looking. Been robbing the royal coffer, have you?”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas