mugging
Americannoun
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muggings
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Origin of mugging
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It all certainly casts a spell, but the narrative devolves into atmospheric mush interpolated with too many images of Hathaway mugging and posing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Too often, it looked like a regulatory mugging of children with rare diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
The UK government’s foreign travel advice says crime levels are relatively low in Rwanda, but there are cases of burglary, theft, bag-snatching and mugging in Kigali.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2024
When he isn’t mugging for Reed’s camera he vacillates between a stony-faced refusal to admit guilt and an approximation of remorse.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
He presses one shoulder into the wall, crosses his arms, cocks his head, squints his eyes, mugging James Dean better than James Dean.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Such was its poor reputation, it was dubbed "muggings underpass" by some.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
An ex-convict who did nine years' jail for theft and street muggings in the 1980s, Prigozhin has emerged from the shadows to assume a high profile since Russia's Feb. 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
From Reuters ● Mar. 12, 2023
The chief justice asked, “How many muggings take place in the forest?”
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
“How many muggings take place in the forest?”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
New York without the garbage and muggings, it’s supposed to be.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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