mugging
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Outside in the streets, the cosplayers enjoyed mugging for the cameras or taking selfies and laughing at themselves and others while interacting with their favorite celebrities.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
He would know: His team’s 2025 report featured a photo of the Aerosmith frontman mugging alongside Rizer in his past life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
No other conference-affiliated team endures the annual potential midseason mugging from an established independent like USC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2025
The UK government’s foreign travel advice says crime levels are relatively low in Rwanda, but there are cases of burglary, theft, bag-snatching and mugging in Kigali.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2024
Dill took one hand off the handlebars and flexed his arm, mugging.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Such was its poor reputation, it was dubbed "muggings underpass" by some.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
An ex-convict who did nine years' jail for theft and street muggings in the 1980s, Prigozhin has emerged from the shadows to assume a high profile since Russia's Feb. 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
From Reuters ● Mar. 12, 2023
We don’t have data for every intervening year, but the surveys we have suggest roughly 30 fewer robberies and muggings per person, per year, for a decade.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
“How many muggings take place in the forest?”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
New York without the garbage and muggings, it’s supposed to be.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
