as in robbed
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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Two victims were robbed at their homes, and one was robbed after exiting a vehicle at a business in San Rafael.—
Cameron Macdonald,
Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2026 -
In a social media post on Thursday, the Novato Police Department said that dispatchers received a 911 call on the afternoon of January 14 from a man who reported being robbed at gunpoint at his home in central Novato.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Stole (from).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stole%20%28from%29. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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