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SWSLA would stop Wall Street firms from looting businesses and destroying jobs for profit by forcing them to share liability and put workers first in the event of bankruptcy by providing for severance and pensions.

From Fortune

Just going back to coronavirus a little bit, to me and to folks like me, it was very frustrating to see a three- to five-week hiatus in coronavirus coverage when the country was being looted, ravaged and burned.

From Ozy

It’s all led to genuine rage against the system, which in several cases over the past year has culminated in a minority of protesters burning down buildings and looting businesses.

From Vox

So, calling people names, assuming the worst in everybody, looting, burning stuff down, doesn’t help the healing process.

From Ozy

Throughout the 24-page indictment, the group appears to be referenced as “Non-Profit-1” in a scheme in which Bannon and his partners were allegedly looting a crowdsourced charity, We Build the Wall, for personal gain.

Botala remembers that the rebels would pull into the island, loot what they could, and then take the haul back to Stanleyville.

For years, William Schmidt single-handedly dug a tunnel through a mountain to transport his gold-rush loot.

Go and loot shops from business owners who were not part of the original problem whatsoever.

Sayyed, who never went to school, was one of the laborers hired by organized gangs to loot.

Then he pushed his loot outside and up the street towards his house.

The Christians who were unable to escape were either massacred or carried off as slaves into the interior, with the loot.

The fires were being rekindled; around each little groups, over the loot of the Turkish camps.

For he was certain that the isolated structure Soriki had pointed out was not the treasure house they had come to loot.

Thus, live-stock were fair loot, and so were carpets and other house-furniture, and arms of course.

What did they care for Urmi men and the settlement of Persia, when balanced against such a chance of loot and vengeance?

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On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to loot, such as: booty, spoils, graft, haul, lift, and money.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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