Thesaurus results for ROBBER

robber

noun

Definition of robber

as in thief

one who steals the robber wore a ski mask while holding up the bank

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Recent Examples of robber 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, 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 With each episode flipping perspective between the police operation and the robbers barricaded inside, The Day constantly resets the narrative. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 Romero retired from the NYPD in 2001 shortly after being injured in a shootout with apparent robbers at his family's Brooklyn laundromat. — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 His defense has pointed out that his client’s fingerprints were found neither on the truck used in the heist nor in the parking lot where the robbers allegedly handed the jewels to an unidentified individual. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 In Tokyo and Osaka, there are Chinese gangsters, Brazilian robbers, and even a gang of thieves from Serbia and Montenegro called the Pink Panthers. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 The robbers were given a key and information about the property by Anthony Black, a security guard at the warehouse whose sister was in a relationship with Robinson. — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026 On Saturday, around seven masked robbers shut off the alarms and surveillance cameras surrounding one of Marchesi Antinori’s cellars in Cortona. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026

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thief

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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