Thesaurus results for ROBS

robs

verb

present tense third-person singular of rob

as in loots

to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully in jail for robbing a bank

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Recent Examples of robs Knowing his days are numbered, Vince robs banks to provide for his wife and young child. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026 That robs the Giants of two of their headlining players and increases the difficulty to get results, even against a lowly team like the 0-2 Titans. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026 Israel robs children of their smallest joys because joy is the seed of hope, and that is how the body learns that captivity is not the natural condition of life. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 But the rollicking jollity that accompanies the final two acts, which includes the entrance of pirates and the abduction of Marina to a brothel, robs the ending of some of its pathos. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026 Parkinson’s is a neurologic disease that robs people of control over their movements. — CNN Money, 28 July 2026 What people want to hear is your own voice; the story told in your own way, and that’s what AI completely robs everyone of. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2026 College football is nothing without traditions (see above), and ripping Notre Dame-USC from the calendar robs the next generation of fans of both schools from enjoying the game their fathers and grandfathers remember. — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 26 June 2026 The ban has been widely celebrated by advocates who hope Vermont’s move will prompt similar action in other states to prevent the neurologic disease that robs people of control over their movements and affects about 1 million Americans. — ABC News, 25 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for robs

Verb

Israel blames Hamas for the scale of the destruction in Gaza, saying the group hides behind civilians, uses civil infrastructure for military purposes, and loots humanitarian aid intended for ordinary Gazans.

— Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025

Definition of loots

Verb

Critics contend the industry plunders distressed companies, leading to downsizing and cost-cutting that hurts local communities, though other research has pushed back on that reputation.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2026
By delegitimizing the Islamic Republic as an occupying force—one that plunders national wealth to subsidize regional proxies—the opposition has effectively subverted the regime’s nationalist rhetoric.

— Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of plunders

Verb

The four-week average of claims, which strips out week-to-week ups and downs, dipped to 197,750.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Work that strips human beings of dignity is often work that no longer requires distinctly human qualities at all.

— Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of strips

Verb

But the strain extends across the Global South, where developing nations struggle with a prolonged energy crisis that disproportionately squeezes the planet’s most deprived.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
Meta squeezes two independent light-guiding cores into a single standard glass strand to double its bandwidth.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of squeezes

Verb

Trump sometimes plucks memes from a sprawling ecosystem of online conservative supporters, and sometimes his government staff produces them as part of their official messaging.

— Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
His torso and thighs grow eye-poppingly muscular beneath their skimpy fur-and-leather togs—a development that does not go unnoticed by a warrior named Red Hair, who plucks the young hunk from his post and tosses him into the prime time of the gladiator pit.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026