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The web of their lives “is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” to filch from Shakespeare, and Venable combines virtues and vices in unexpected patterns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

One piece they failed to filch, however, was the Dresden Green, an elaborate diamond hat pin crafted around an extremely rare, almond-shaped celadon-green diamond.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2020

Forays like these increasingly vex trade hawks in America, who fear that China will filch its cutting-edge technology.

From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018

“Shipwrecks and cannibals. Does that ring any bells, Miss Lumley? I know you filch books from my library sometimes; don’t deny it.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

"But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018

In his ruling, he quoted “Othello”: “He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

I sidle over to spoon my husband’s cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup with lemon verbena and shellfish; he filches confit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2015

Gunn not only filches from the trove, he graciously acknowledges the theft.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

“Silence, sir,—‘But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that—of that—’” “Rob you of what, sar?”

From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick

To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

But there was no evidence that the fragment with writings from Mark had been filched.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

To balance the state’s budget, the Legislature has filched all it can from cities and towns over the years.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2019

When not kitted out in her Captain Marvel suit—much less revealing than Gadot’s Wonder Woman getup—she spends much of the film in a baggy Nine Inch Nails T-shirt filched from a store mannequin.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2019

Like a human woman, Rachael had every class of object conceivable filched and hidden away in her purse; he found himself rooting interminably.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News ● Dec. 13, 2021

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020

Luhnow offered this lament even as the Astros were filching pitching signs like itchy-fingered bank robbers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2020

Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018

Bishop Newton, who was Dean a hundred and twenty years ago, roundly accused the authorities of filching the decoration funds for William's wars.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Dimock, Arthur