as in to rob
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
little wonder that the store went out of business, as its employees had been stealing from it for years
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Life for a child should be a time of wonder and discovery, but children with cancer are sometimes robbed of those wonders.—
Ross Guidotti,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026 -
He was robbed of the equalizer in the third period when Bobrovsky just got a piece of Geekie’s shot from the top of the crease.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Steal (from).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steal%20%28from%29. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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