robber
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The robber argued this violated the Fourth Amendment’s protection from “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
"It needs to be nipped in the bud because today's petty thief is tomorrow's bank robber," he says.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
The robber clique turns out to have its own bosses, too, as well as the most visible fractures in their unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
“You look like a bank robber, man,” I said to him.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
It’s a case about how cops use peoples’ private digital data to catch 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
Until then, we’ll have to endure him playing a few more rounds of cops and robbers.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
His sister Angela Climax, who also goes by Aisha Muhammad, said she would follow him around as a child and the pair would play cops and robbers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
He thought of her only as the person win had robbed him, and, since robbers are deceitful, designing, and heartless people, he thought of her as-these.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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