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An example use of robbery in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… grave robbery of valuables or …”
Robbery is the act of stealing something from a person or a place by force or threat of force.
the word robbery occurs in english on average 7.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.