robber
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The robber turned out to be an Italian glazier who helped frame the museum's paintings.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
As early as 1859 the New York Times associated Cornelius Vanderbilt with the idea of the medieval robber baron, thus tarnishing the image of the country’s biggest shipowner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
"Ludicrously, one of their concerns was that the robber was a 'customer'."
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
Ours is a history in which New York robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into factions and manipulate them into fighting among themselves during the Gilded Age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2026
Bank robber Willie Sutton wrote that in 1926, it “had uneven jagged stone walls that sweated moisture all day and all night.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Prosecutor Arizuna Asante said Botezatu was smoking with a friend near to his car when the robbers approached.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But this isn’t a case about cops and robbers.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Rather than putting out a dry statement promising to cooperate with the authorities, five employees crafted a jokey response saying the robbers had taken KitKat’s “have a break” slogan a little too literally.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Until then, we’ll have to endure him playing a few more rounds of cops and robbers.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
My oldest sister said, “Silly, that was a long time ago. There aren’t any robbers there now.”
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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