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
As thousands demonstrated in Washington this week to protest racial inequality and police brutality, scores of people used the civil unrest as a chaotic cover to burglarize businesses, according to police data and arrest records.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
“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
The speakers and writers on whom you may rely will not say "to burglarize," "to suspicion," "to enthuse," "plenty rich," "real tired," "considerable discouraged," "a combine," or "humans."
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
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
Sielsch drove to a home that had been burglarized by a bear to install an electric mat on the back porch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
Pitt is one of the latest celebrities to see their home burglarized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
It isn’t merely coincidental or surprising, as when the newscaster thoughtlessly reports, “Ironically, the jewelry store was burglarized on the same date last year.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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A man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of burglarizing a Hidden Hills home owned by Kim Kardashian and stealing one of her cars, according to a law enforcement source.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
According to the probation report, Prowell, who is Black, admitted burglarizing the houses in Beverly Hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
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
Although Watergate had some foreign policy origins — the “plumbers” started out burglarizing Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in response to the Pentagon Papers — it was an overwhelmingly domestic affair with a narrow focus.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2017
If he, Ramon Hamilton, were to be caught in the act of burglarizing, his career as a rising young lawyer would be at an end.
From The Crevice by Will Grefé