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burgling

verb

present participle of burgle

as in invading

to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent someone burgled the lab when no one was there and let the animals out of their cages

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to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully the neighbors returned from vacation to find that their house had been burgled

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Light eight lanterns if the British are invading by land, but running late.

— Evan Allgood, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
The court also upheld that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship for all except in the narrowest of cases, like the children of diplomats and invading soldiers.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026

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More than a thousand people across Europe are dead, often as a result of the fact that nighttime temperatures stayed high, robbing bodies of the chance to cope.

— Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
The race ended under a safety car, though, robbing fans of a sprint to the end.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 5 July 2026

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