looted

Example Sentences

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A fugitive financier accused of involvement in a massive corruption scandal in Malaysia in which top officials looted billions from state fund 1MDB has filed for a pardon from US President Donald Trump.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Brand then searched the archives of a 1940 auction where much of Goudstikker's looted collection was sold and discovered an item under the number 92 titled "Portrait of a Young Girl" by Toon Kelder.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

“We are now compiling a database of all the looted items to facilitate their tracing and recovery.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

But when he went to tidy the land just outside the house, he discovered two graves — one of them small enough for a child — near the shell of a looted car.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

This last sends me drifting off in a sci-fi direction: And as the time thieves headed back to the year 3420, loaded with weekends and days off looted from the twenty-first century .

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich