theft
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Isn’t it funny how the money to implement theft protection is no problem, while workers see no changes to their paycheck?
From Salon • May 22, 2026
He had revered the British Museum since he was a teenager and was incensed by the idea that a theft was continuing and that it was being perpetrated by a curator.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Police Chief Jim McDonnell said that many of these residential burglaries are tied to theft rings from South America as well as groups based in South L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, called it a "monstrous theft of taxpayer resources."
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
The loss had to be made good, as had also the theft, despite the presence of a chowkidar, of a cartload of bricks and the cart itself.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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