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housebreaker

noun

Definition of housebreaker

as in burglar

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For example, the 60-year-old burglar who's already done three of his five years might prove as much.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
Notably in October 2024, burglars broke into several shipping containers on a freight train in the West Side's Austin community in an hours-long daylight heist.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of burglar

Noun

French President Emmanuel Macron gave a warning this week that thieves would be apprehended.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
The new series picks up four years later, as Assane is released and pledges to go straight and repair his relationship with his family, only for a copycat thief to once more drag him to the criminal side.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026

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Romero retired from the NYPD as a detective in 2001, a year after he was shot while off duty by armed robbers at his family-run laundromat in Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told ABC New York City station WABC.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
The series opens from the police perspective, but later the story rewinds and is told through the eyes of the robbers and and their hostages inside the bank.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of robber

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