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The word "looting" is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb that is used to describe the act of stealing from a place (usually during a war or a natural disaster). For example, "The town was left in ruins after being hit by the tornado, and looters took advantage of the chaos by looting several stores in the area."
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In 2013, the newly appointed head of Qeshm free trade zone spoke of "a vast loose financial mafia" that had been "looting the island's riches en masse".
Over the winter of 1937, Japanese troops in Nanjing unleashed a relentless onslaught of looting, burning, torture and murder.
They'll lose control of their senses and start screaming and crying and looting and farting.
If I want to grab all the scrap and ammo I can – and I do, because that's part of why I play shooty-looty games; for the joy of looting every last corner and kitting out my party with incremental upgrades – I need all the skills.
However, the rioting, looting, vandalism and assaults from Croydon to Manchester should be placed in some context.
Based on Finnish myths, it has the genre's usual procedurally-generated dungeons, battling and looting, but does a good job of wrapping a story around the action.
Two were charged with looting and one for disorderly conduct away from the main protest.
When the opposition was in control, there was stealing, raping, slaughtering and looting.
She described two other teenagers charged with looting as "children [who] need to be rehabilitated".
But this did not prevent Ben Ali and his associates looting the country's resources and spending the money in France.
"Chris Kyle boasted of looting the apartments of Iraqi families in Fallujah," wrote author and former Daily Beast writer Max Blumenthal.
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