looting

Example Sentences

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The anti-Assad forces were splintered, mutually mistrustful and prone to looting; the areas they controlled descended into anarchy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

But the South African also sees the game as a "general awareness-raising attempt about African culture, African history, and sort of the scale of this cultural artefact looting that has happened".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

But she also presided over an autocratic government that crushed dissent, and now faces court cases alleging the looting of national wealth.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

The Tuwaitha nuclear complex was left unsecured for days after Iraqi forces abandoned it, leading to widespread looting by local civilians.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Around her, neighbors scrambled with wooden buckets, looting the beach for stranded fish and crabs.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García