burglarize
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Another resident, Andrés Calderón, 40, said several people in the neighborhood hadn’t wanted to leave their homes, fearing that thieves would burglarize them.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
“Westwood was entirely sure it was people trying to seek out their houses to burglarize them,” said Neal, a documentary film editor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
“Eric Rivera Jr. would not have been in that car on the way to burglarize Sean Taylor’s house that night if he was a really good football player,” Dorsey said in a phone interview.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 29, 2014
This year, she leads a particularly strong Un Certain Regard sidebar with "The Bling Ring," a film about star-worshipping California teenagers who burglarize celebrity homes.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2013
If I had for one instant imagined you cared enough about it to burglarize my rooms ...
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
The horror thriller, about a valet who burglarizes the houses of his rich customers, earned a B-minus rating on CinemaScore and a 56% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2018
More recently in June, a rail car loaded with lithium-ion batteries caught fire as it was being burglarized in the Cajon Pass, authorities and railroad representatives said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Unluckily for McCoy, the home that had been burglarized was located on a street where he regularly rode his bicycle in a loop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
He also investigates stolen tractors and off-road vehicles, burglarized deer camps, and financial crimes, like a $2 million case that involved a man who took out bank loans on cows he didn’t own.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Pitt, who owns several properties across the globe, is understood to have been away from the dwelling when it was burglarized on the evening of June 25.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2025
Beholden to paying clients, they were widely seen as surreptitious figures who burglarized people’s secrets.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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In May, seven Colombian nationals were arrested on suspicion of burglarizing homes in Burbank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
And in January, police arrested a man suspected of burglarizing Drake’s Beverly Hills home.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2023
It's as if G. Gordon Liddy kept burglarizing various Democratic offices after the Watergate break-in, but the reporting on his later crimes failed to mention the first one.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2020
Craig Koblitz, 62, a yacht repairman who lives across the street, said some neighbors had suspected him of burglarizing a nearby house a few years ago.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2018
"Well," said Tommy, wonderingly, "that's, the first time I ever knew a burglar to give a college yell when he was burglarizing a house, even in a story."
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
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