as in burglarized
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
in jail for robbing a bank
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Recent Examples of robbed
McCoy was once considered a top-10 pick, but the 6-foot, 195-pound corner sustained a torn ACL during offseason workouts in January 2025 that robbed him of his junior season.
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Mike Defabo, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
The terrifying story of how Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in 2016 is being made into a Canal+ doc series.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
Customers and staff were robbed at gunpoint inside a River North diner early Thursday morning.
—Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Think your team just got robbed?
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
The historian added that some of the outlaws held Hart hostage, while the other half of the gang robbed the treasury, just half a mile away.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
Sluggish growth, low interest rates and the vaporization of middle-class wealth after the 2008 financial crisis had robbed financiers of profitable deals in the Global North.
—Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
According to the group, reporters were beaten with riot shields, pepper sprayed and robbed of equipment.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
The man had been robbed, and his credit card had been used all over town.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Mike Defabo, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
The terrifying story of how Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in 2016 is being made into a Canal+ doc series.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
Customers and staff were robbed at gunpoint inside a River North diner early Thursday morning.
—Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Think your team just got robbed?
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
The historian added that some of the outlaws held Hart hostage, while the other half of the gang robbed the treasury, just half a mile away.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
Sluggish growth, low interest rates and the vaporization of middle-class wealth after the 2008 financial crisis had robbed financiers of profitable deals in the Global North.
—Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
According to the group, reporters were beaten with riot shields, pepper sprayed and robbed of equipment.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
The man had been robbed, and his credit card had been used all over town.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for robbed
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Early Saturday morning, a Sherman Oaks jewelry store was broken into when suspects tunneled through the wall of the store's bathroom, and earlier in the week, a Valley Glen home became one of at least five homes burglarized in the last week.—
Brittney Ermon,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Dehydration dogs their journey, and local ranchers have found their homes burglarized by travelers in search of sustenance.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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The 2025 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, expands on a 2016 law, signed by President Barack Obama, that permits victims and descendants of victims of the Holocaust to lay legal claim to works of art looted by the Nazis or sold to the Nazis under false pretenses.—
Jackie Hajdenberg,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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All the State Forensic Authority’s DNA analysis labs were looted and destroyed in the fighting.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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He was sacked at Fenerbahce after losing in the Champions League play-offs to, well, Benfica, who hired him a couple of weeks later.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert was sacked 54 times in 2025, third most in the NFL, and finding offensive line depth was among the team’s priorities entering the draft.—
Senior Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Magyar has called for all of Orbán’s cronies in the government to resign and has committed to holding to account those who plundered Hungary.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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The collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity and the company’s management, has generated a painful litany of woes.—
Peter Elkind,
ProPublica,
9 Apr. 2026
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Investigators said that Scott walked through an unlocked front door, stripped off his clothes and went straight into a sleeping child’s bedroom.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Those allegations finally resulted in his being stripped of his police powers.—
Jamie Kalven,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Both of those vulnerabilities were actively exploited in the wild.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
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Workers put their bodies, livelihoods and lives on the line to oppose employers and governments that exploited physical laborers through inhumane working conditions.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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The reportedly yearlong relationship is notable in that, after their split in 2015, Stocking posted and deleted tweets saying the basketball player cheated, per The New York Post.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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This is the same team that cheated and got caught how many times, going back to Bill Belichick and golden boy Tom Brady (Deflategate)?—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Robbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/robbed. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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