filch

He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

Though China has often used computer hacking to filch secrets, this case relied on traditional espionage techniques, including the attempted recruitment of corporate insiders.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2018

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

From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018

The window of opportunity is rapidly closing on them: Every new story idea the duo comes up with is already claimed by Shakespeare, a shameless plagiarist always eager to filch an idea from Nigel's notebook.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2017

It might seem like a shelter from the storm, but it really was another asylum packed with a bunch of mangy orphans ready to filch my last possessions while I slept.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

"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

Philharmonic to cellist Peter Stumpf after it had been filched from the front porch of his Los Feliz home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020

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

Now, this could be because they’re lost in the mail — or filched by a letter carrier who’s really interested in bauxite — but I have a nagging suspicion they never existed at all.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2018

Once when I filched a cookie from the jar, Mom called me the Blushing Bandit, on account of my red face.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

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

As unemployment rates nationwide have sunk to record lows, filching workers — from kitchens and construction sites, warehouses and Walmarts, truck cabs and nursing homes — has become routine.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019

Then they began filching stories from their real lives for the show.

From Slate ● May 29, 2012

Thou hast a knave within thy house—Hodge, a servant of thine; They tell me that busy knave is such a filching one, That hen, pig, goose or capon, thy neighbour can have none.

From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of