robbed
Example Sentences
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All of this is familiar from before, but robbed of the expressive capacity of animation it ends up feeling considerably more wooden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Had the advent of intensive parenting robbed the holiday of its spark?
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said generations had been "robbed of opportunity".
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The Knicks winning the finals as fast as they did actually robbed the arena itself of a major spending event, a possibility that my colleagues Nate Wolf and Janet H. Cho pointed out last week.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
I knew that I must find the train to Uelzen, but months of being told what to do had left me robbed of initiative.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
