burglarize
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Another resident, Andrés Calderón, 40, said several people in the neighborhood hadn’t wanted to leave their homes, fearing that thieves would burglarize them.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
“Westwood was entirely sure it was people trying to seek out their houses to burglarize them,” said Neal, a documentary film editor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
As thousands demonstrated in Washington this week to protest racial inequality and police brutality, scores of people used the civil unrest as a chaotic cover to burglarize businesses, according to police data and arrest records.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
Tolbert says he believes that “will have an effect on those who burglarize homes in Flint.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 11, 2015
In wet weather, when his vestibule is shallow, the sand-hill crane may burglarize him, or even get a snap judgment on him at the front door.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
The horror thriller, about a valet who burglarizes the houses of his rich customers, earned a B-minus rating on CinemaScore and a 56% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2018
Sielsch drove to a home that had been burglarized by a bear to install an electric mat on the back porch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He also investigates stolen tractors and off-road vehicles, burglarized deer camps, and financial crimes, like a $2 million case that involved a man who took out bank loans on cows he didn’t own.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
“Neighbors are being burglarized quite often. For the streets to be this dark is even more of a danger,” Sicilia said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
Pitt, who owns several properties across the globe, is understood to have been away from the dwelling when it was burglarized on the evening of June 25.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2025
Beholden to paying clients, they were widely seen as surreptitious figures who burglarized people’s secrets.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Bass and other elected officials in Los Angeles have repeatedly asked protesters to remain nonviolent and refrain from spray-painting graffiti or otherwise vandalizing or burglarizing businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
Can you still claim to be one of the country’s safest cities if thieves are burglarizing your residents’ properties on a daily basis?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Although the men on trial admitted to burglarizing the museum, they refused to admit significant aspects of the crime — such as planning and leadership — blaming unknown accomplices instead.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
It's as if G. Gordon Liddy kept burglarizing various Democratic offices after the Watergate break-in, but the reporting on his later crimes failed to mention the first one.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2020
There was the Kellys, of course, but the Kellys couldn't qualify neither, for they're too rich to need to do any burglarizing.
From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner