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breaking and entering



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Now, after breaking and entering the dwarfs’ home, Zegler doesn’t spend this iteration of “Whistle While You Work” tidying up with birds, squirrels and bunnies — she makes the men scrub their own damned floors.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

Squatting is legal is Australia, but laws prohibiting breaking and entering or trespass - remaining on private property when instructed to leave - still apply.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2024

Burglaries and breaking and entering cases are up nearly 20 percent over last year, according to Atlanta police statistics.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Doubling of concepts is also common: null and void, breaking and entering, pain and suffering, legal and binding.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Figure to yourselves, my dears, that I was wholly blameless in this unhappy breaking and entering, and so, mayhap, you may find excuse for me.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis