rob

Example Sentences

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“The Fraud Division’s data-driven approach will shine a light on fraud schemes across the country, ensuring that no doctor can engage in these types of brazen schemes to rob Medicare.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

And hey, did you know that the word “raptor”—which is often used to describe birds of prey—comes from the Latin verb rapio, which means to plunder, rob, ravish, or abduct?

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026

Raiding their retirement accounts would rob them of the single best thing they have going for them: time.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026

Place this alongside Horace in one of his “Epistles”: “The advancing years rob us of every thing: they have taken away my mirth, my gallantry, my revelings, and play.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Prison had robbed me of my freedom but not my memories, and now I felt some enemies of the struggle had tried to rob me of even those.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela