Synonyms for looting
loot·ing

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1. looting, robberynoun

   plundering during riots or in wartime

   Synonyms:
   robbery

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1. List of paraphrases for "looting":

   plundering, pillaging, plunder, pillage, robbery, looted, depredation, loot, theft, sacking

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1. Jonathan Pryke:

   I guarantee you the vast majority of the people involved in the rioting and looting couldn't point China or Taiwan out on a map, they were there as opportunists because they have had very limited economic opportunity. It's a very poor country with high youth unemployment, and this just shows how quickly these things can spiral out of control in a country that's volatile.

2. LaToya Cantrell:

   My directive has been very clear : ‘ Lock ’em up. ’ We will not tolerate it, and we have not tolerated it, so we have apprehended those individuals associated with the looting that we have been able to identify.

3. Vice President Pence:

   President Donald Trump and I will always support the right of Americans to peaceful protest, but rioting and looting is not peaceful protest, tearing down statues is not free speech. Those who do so will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, last week, Joe Biden didn't say one word about the violence and chaos engulfing cities across this country. Let me be clear, the violence must stop, whether in Minneapolis, Portland, or Kenosha.

4. Roger Moore:

   Everyone we come into contact [ with ] in those neighborhoods, if they don't have a legitimate reason to be there, if we don't arrest them for looting, they'll be arrested for something else.

5. The New York Times:

   While Democrats seized on Mr. Floyd’s death last May to highlight racism in policing and other forms of social injustice, Republicans responded to a summer of protests by proposing a raft of punitive new measures governing the right to lawfully assemble, some, like [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis, are labeling them ‘anti-riot’ bills, conflating the right to peaceful protest with the rioting and looting that sometimes resulted from such protests.