robber
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A British actor has been praised for "chasing down and rugby tackling" a handbag robber while he was in France for a film festival.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
It’s a faithful facsimile—with a singular ingredient absent: the soulful performance of Al Pacino in the central role of the hapless bank robber Sonny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 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
This was the age of robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil was a business “trust” comprising dozens of companies in numerous vertically linked industries.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
Could this be our Mrs. Maroney, wife of the suspected robber of the Adams Express Company, Mr. Nathan Maroney?
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
But this isn’t a case about cops and robbers.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
On the available training data, "we average less than one percent errors," Van Calster said -- although "there's a kind of cops and robbers race that's never going to stop" as the fakers' technology improves.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Not even a leaping Mullins, one of baseball’s veteran home-run robbers, could stop Freddie Freeman from doing what the Dodgers first baseman does best: hitting clutch home runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Until then, we’ll have to endure him playing a few more rounds of cops and robbers.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Twenty million Montags running, running like an ancient flickery Keystone Comedy, cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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