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robbers

noun

plural of robber

as in thieves

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

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Recent Examples of robbers 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 Abramson said Romero is a hero police officer who was awarded the Combat Cross for being involved in a shootout with would-be robbers at his family's laundromat. — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The show, based on the 2018 Belgian series De Dag, unfolds over the course of a single day and changes perspectives between the police and the robbers and hostages. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 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 under the impression that the warehouse held foreign currency but instead found 6,800 candy-bar-sized gold ingots alongside diamonds, travelers checks, and precious metals. — 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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thieves

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

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Today, thieves barely need to leave the comfort of their own couch.

— Mike McRae October 20, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2026

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