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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rob .
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Examples
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I'm sorry to hear that Swan - at least you're not in the east side of Toronto (before the DVP, not after) so theoretically I should have been robbed once in the 5 months I've been in this city (I've been groped by a old smelly drunk dude getting off a streetcar - does that count?). * knocks on wood to not get robbed*
MetaChat 2010
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The legendary archer and bandit who “robbed from the rich and gave to the poor” has been written in stories and been put on film for years.
My Five Best People Who Possibly Never Lived | myFiveBest 2009
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The fact that we were robbed is simply not justification for robbing our children.
Social Security Deal?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A man armed with a large metal chain robbed a convenience store of cash from a cash register.
Anne Arundel County and Howard County crime report Post 2010
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"Then you get it all back," he assured her; but in his heart he was wondering about God, that allowed so many suckers to be born and that did not break up the gambling game by which they were robbed from the cradle to the grave.
Chapter IX 2010
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A man armed with a large metal chain robbed a convenience store of cash from a cash register.
Anne Arundel County and Howard County crime report Post 2010
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Start with Cheney's Halliburton and while you're at it make them pay back the money they robbed from the American taxpayers by not fulfilling their contracts.
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These great works will be the form their expenditure of the surplus will take, and in the same way that the ruling classes of Egypt of long ago expended the surplus they robbed from the people by the building of temples and pyramids.
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Being robbed is not a stress that bar-studying students need.
Discourse.net: Pressures Students Studying for the Bar Don't Need 2009
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Though why He would say I was robbed is beyond me.
COMMENTS OF THE WEEK 2008
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